Cultural diversity and the U.S. media (State University of New York Press, 1998)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and index
I. Introductory perspectives. U.S. minorities and the news / Bradley S. Greenberg and Jeffrey E. Brand -- Minority representation and portrayal in modern newsprint cartoons / Scott McLean -- Disney does diversity : the social context of racial-ethnic imagery / Alan J. Spector -- Beyond employment diversity : rethinking contemporary racist news representations / Christopher P. Campbell. II. Mass media and ethnicity. Hegemony in black and white : interracial buddy films and the new racism / B. Lee Artz -- Black situation comedies and the politics of television art / Angela M.S. Nelson -- Crawling toward civil rights : news media coverage of disability activism / Beth Haller -- Media stereotypes of Jews : from JAPs to MDs / Marsha Woodbury -- Still crazy after all these years : Italian Americans in mainstream U.S. films / Theresa Carilli -- Ethnic humor and ingroup/outgroup positioning : explicating viewer perceptions of All-American girl / Mark P. Orbe, Ruth Seymour, and Mee-Eun Kang -- Destroying the past to save the present : pastoral voice and native identity / Richard Morris and Mary E. Stuckey -- Ethnic voices : afrocentric public affairs television programming / Alice A. Tait -- The representation of Arabs in U.S. electronic media / Rebecca Ann Lind and James A. Danowski -- Moving beyond the screen : Hollywood and Mexican American stereotypes / Fernando Delgado
III. Mass media and conflicts. O.J. live : raced ways of seeing innocence and guilt / Darnell Montez Hunt -- Mass-mediated realities and the Persian Gulf War : inventing the Arab enemy / Marouf Hasian, Jr. -- Who's the victim? : intercultural perceptions between African American and Korean American business people in Dallas / Meta G. Carstarphen and Tae Guk Kim -- Reporting hantavirus : the impact of cultural diversity in environmental and health news / JoAnn M. Valenti. IV. Mass media and education. The (mis)representation of ethnicity and the omission of racism in K-12 cultural diversity curriculum / Christy Hammer -- Representing Arabs : reliance on the past / Greta D. Little -- Using C-SPAN to evaluate sensitivity toward cultural diversity : the case of Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign / Jim Schnell -- Distortion of "Islam" and "Muslims" in American academic discourse : some observations on the sociology of vested enmity / Bud B. Khleif