Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC: Regrouping in Singular Times

Williams, Patricia J.

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“…For Goffman, blackness is a stigma which is it impossible to erase . A ‘stigma of inferiority that resides not merely in the label or designation of race’, but is imagined as ‘embodied in black presence’ (Williams, 1990, pp. 542–543).…”

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“…What we learn from Goffman is that for people racialised as Black, ‘managing a spoiled identity’ means interacting in public in ways which protect white people from ‘the ferocious mythology of blackness … as the embodiment of inferiority’ (Williams, 1990, p. 543). In order to decolonise Goffman’s stigma concept, it is imperative that we question why he is so seemingly invested in maintaining an arrangement of normal–stigma relations in which only people who are socially marked as white can be normal.…”

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Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power

Tyler

2018

The Sociological Review

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This paper offers a critical re-reading of the understanding of stigma forged by the North American sociologist Erving Goffman in his influential Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity (1963). One of the most widely read and cited sociologists in history, Goffman was already famous when Stigma was published in 1963. His previous books were bestsellers and Stigma alone has sold an astonishing 800,000 copies in the fifty years since its publication. Given its considerable influence, it is surprising how little sustained engagement there has been with the historicity of Goffman's account. This paper resituates Goffman's conceptualisation of stigma within the historical context of Jim Crow and the Black freedom struggles that were shaking "the social interaction order" to its foundations at the very moment he crafted his account. It is the contention of this paper that these explosive political movements against the 'humiliations of racial discrimination' invite revision of Goffman's decidedly apolitical account of stigma (Robinson, 2000, p. 318). This historical revision of Goffman's stigma concept builds on an existing body of critical work on 'the relationship between race, segregation and the epistemology of sociology within the United States' (Bhambra, 2014). Throughout, it reads Goffman's Stigma through the lens of "Black Sociology", a field of knowledge that here designates not only formal sociological scholarship, but political manifestos, journalism, creative writing, oral histories and memoirs. It is the argument of this paper that placing Goffman's concept of stigma into critical dialogue with Black epistemologies of stigma allows for a timely reconceptualisation of stigma as governmental technologies of de-humanisation that have long been collectively resisted from below.

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Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power

Tyler

2018

The Sociological Review

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“…In Metro Broadcasting v. FCC (1990), the Supreme Court ruled on two cases, one on the minority ownership credit in comparative hearings, the other on the distress sale. As Patricia Williams (1990) demonstrates, the justices in Metro fundamentally disagreed over the contours of equality in a multiracial society. While the majority decision, penned by Justice Brennan, asserted that a broadcasting industry dominated by one racial group (whites) would logically be incapable of representing the diversity of the polity, the respective dissents of Justices O'Connor and Kennedy argued that presuming a nexus between viewpoint/taste and racial identity signaled a malevolent and unconstitutional reliance on stereotypes.…”

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Whitewashing Diversity

Perlman

2011

Television & New Media

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This article examines the relationship between conservative discourse, racial politics, and broadcasting policy in the United States. It explores how conservative media personalities, pundits, and activists in 2009 claimed that efforts to increase broadcast diversity were, in actuality, attempts by liberals to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine-a policy that had required broadcasters to air both sides of controversial issues-through "the backdoor." Reframing media diversity policies as masquerades to silence conservative voices, conservatives both denied the existence of barriers to participation for people of color and extended a narrative of conservative victimization. In contextualizing and analyzing the crusade against the "stealth Fairness Doctrine," this article demonstrates how media policy discourse has operated as a site where conservative claims of injury occlude the continued existence of structural barriers to people of color and deny the importance of racial difference in the United States.

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The rise and fall of the distress sale

Stavitsky

1992

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

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Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC: Regrouping in Singular Times

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Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power

Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power

Whitewashing Diversity

The rise and fall of the distress sale

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