In Black and White: Coverage of U.S. Slave Reparations by the Mainstream and Black Press

Mastin, Teresa; Campo, Shelly; Frazer, Marilee

doi:10.1080/10646170500207956

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“…In this context, journalists may be endeavoring to make sense of these incidents within the context of African-American communities. Furthermore, these news reports do not reinforce the status quo which is at odds with existing research on the portrayal of minorities in news (Mastin, Campo, and Frazer 2005;Shah and Thornton 2004;Squires 2007Squires 2009, or give credence to oÖcial authorities (Gitlin 2003;Reese 1990), in this instance, police. Rather, they privilege community members who question police actions and decisions, and they highlight protests as a form of counter-movement against the actions of police.…”

Section: Characteristics Of News Frames By Race/ethnicitycontrasting

confidence: 65%

“…Lastly, researchers have argued that objective ideals for journalism have inadvertently led to ignorance, stereotyping, racist framing, and a reinforcement of the status quo (Mastin, Campo, and Frazer 2005;Shah and Thornton 2004;Squires 2007Squires 2009. When civic unrest has sought to challenge the status quo, journalists have typically given credence to oÖcial authorities (Gitlin 2003;Reese 1990).…”

Section: Race/ethnicity and Mental Illness In The Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Victim or Villain? Racial/Ethnic Differences in News Portrayals of Individuals with Mental Illness Killed by Police

Frankham

2019

The Sociological Quarterly

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As a social problem, little is known about how individuals are portrayed in the news when race/ethnicity and mental illness intersect. This is important because of the ability of news to influence perceptions and policies about mental illness across race/ethnicity. This article examines how individuals with mental illness who were killed by police during 2015 and 2016 were portrayed in the news. Content analysis of 301 online news articles indicates that stereotypes associated with mental illness were diÄerentially applied by race/ethnicity. Findings have implications for public attitudes about mental illness across race/ethnicity.

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Section: Characteristics Of News Frames By Race/ethnicitycontrasting

confidence: 65%

Section: Race/ethnicity and Mental Illness In The Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Victim or Villain? Racial/Ethnic Differences in News Portrayals of Individuals with Mental Illness Killed by Police

Frankham

2019

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…Some authors stress the (tentatively) integrative function of the ethnic media in encouraging forms of participation among marginalised communities (Rigoni and Saitta 2012;Viswanath and Arora 2000;Yu and Ahadi 2010). Others highlight the ways in which the minority press provides a different window for its consumers on issues such as demographic trends or slave reparations compared to the mainstream media (Mastin, Campo, and Frazer 2005;Rodríguez 2007). Contributors to our special issue do not directly take up the topic of ethnic and minority media, but this is clearly a rich area for future research.…”

Section: Participation and The Media: Production And Claims-makingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Migrants, Minorities and the Media: Information, Representations and Participation in the Public Sphere

Bleich¹,

Bloemraad²,

Graauw³

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

146

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Scholars of political communication have stressed the critical role of the media in modern liberal democracies (Bennett and Entman 2001;Chong and Druckman 2007; Koopmans and Statham 2010;McCombs 2004;Norris 2000). The media inform the public, provide a communicative bridge between political and social actors, influence perceptions of pressing issues, depict topics and people in particular ways and may shape individuals' political views and participation. Despite this critical role, students of migrants and minorities have rarely used systematic media analysis in their scholarship. We believe that the time is ripe to review how a focus on the media can help advance a field that traditionally has been explored with other types of data. In this special issue, we showcase a diverse set of new research to illustrate the ways in which media analysis advances our knowledge about migrants and minorities in the public sphere.Understanding the factors that shape media coverage of migrants and minorities, as well as the effect of that coverage on public attitudes, policy outcomes or social relations, has a modest but growing foundation. To further advance our knowledge, this special issue is oriented around a comparative approach. Media coverage may be copious or minimal, positive or negative, social or political. These axes of difference can be examined across time; across regions, countries or cities; between media outlets of different types, political stripes or economic ownership structures; and with reference to a wide range of migrant or minority groups and issues, spanning asylum to security, integration to racial discrimination. Comparative analysis connects

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“…Even today, it remains largely a “cause” journalism, dedicated to articulating the “Black voice” in news reports (Huspek 2004, 2010; Squires 2012; Vercellotti and Brewer, 2006; Wolseley 1971). 3 Its consumers seek it out for its fuller, more nuanced, and “correct” alternative to stories on issues of special salience to Black Americans than the stories provided by the mainstream media (Clawson et al, 2003a; see also Clawson and Waltenburg, 2009; Huspek 2004, 2010; Mastin et al, 2005; Towner et al, 2006; Vercellotti and Brewer, 2006). In other words, the Black press is a “significant ‘counterpoint and counterpart’ to the White [mainstream] press” (Huspek 2004, p. 218).…”

Section: An Argument For Black Media Effectsmentioning

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The Impact of the Black Media on Diffuse Support for the U.S. Supreme Court

Nie

Waltenburg

2017

Du Bois Rev.

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Previous research suggests that the mainstream media’s portrayals of the U.S. Supreme Court as an objective and impartial institution contribute to its diffuse support among the public. This study explores what happens if people are not exposed to these messages, relying instead on information sources that portray the Court and its justices as being politically oriented and motivated. We use the 2003 Blacks and the U.S. Supreme Court Survey data and coarsened exact matching to examine the effect of exposure to the Black media, whose reports are less likely to include legitimizing symbols of the Court. We find that exposure to the Black media significantly lowers people’s diffuse support for the Court among both Blacks and Whites. This result indicates that differences between Blacks and Whites with respect to their diffuse support for the Court are likely to be a function of the informational environment to which they are exposed rather than race per se.

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In Black and White: Coverage of U.S. Slave Reparations by the Mainstream and Black Press

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Victim or Villain? Racial/Ethnic Differences in News Portrayals of Individuals with Mental Illness Killed by Police

Victim or Villain? Racial/Ethnic Differences in News Portrayals of Individuals with Mental Illness Killed by Police

Migrants, Minorities and the Media: Information, Representations and Participation in the Public Sphere

The Impact of the Black Media on Diffuse Support for the U.S. Supreme Court

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