
Facing Difference
Race, Gender, and Mass Media
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-8039-9094-4 (ISBN)
Description
For use on race and gender courses offered in schools and departments of communication and journalism as well as women's studies. This anthology covers a wide range of topics, groups, and issues, and has been specifically edited for undergraduate students. Includes articles from the popular press and from academic sources. Introductions by the editors frame each section, and headnote and questions are included with each article. Biagi and Kern-Foxworth are master teachers of media courses on race and gender issues and their classroom and publishing experience is evident in every section.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
539 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-9094-4 (9780803990944)
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Shirley Biagi is Professor of Journalism at California State University, Sacramento. She has been guest faculty at the American Press Institute, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She is author of more than 200 magazine articles and four books, including Interviews that Work and Media/Reader.
Marilyn Kern-Foxworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Texas A&M University. In Spring 1994, she was the Garth C. Reeves Endowed Chair at Florida A&M University, Department of Journalism, Media and Graphic Arts. In 1981, she received a Kizzy Award from the Black Women Hall of Fame Foundation and was cited as one of 12 outstanding African-American women in America. She is the author of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Marilyn Kern-Foxworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Texas A&M University. In Spring 1994, she was the Garth C. Reeves Endowed Chair at Florida A&M University, Department of Journalism, Media and Graphic Arts. In 1981, she received a Kizzy Award from the Black Women Hall of Fame Foundation and was cited as one of 12 outstanding African-American women in America. She is the author of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Content
Facing Ourselves
How the Media Reflect Who We Are
Facing the Language
Words as Weapons
Facing the News
What Do You See?
Facing the Boss
Power at Work
Facing the Audience
Discovering New Markets
Facing the Future
Important Issues for the 21st Century
How the Media Reflect Who We Are
Facing the Language
Words as Weapons
Facing the News
What Do You See?
Facing the Boss
Power at Work
Facing the Audience
Discovering New Markets
Facing the Future
Important Issues for the 21st Century