Black Press, White Press, and Their Opposition: The Case of the Police Killing of Tyisha Miller
Part of a special issue on resisting militarism and globalized punishment. The oppositional thesis is used to examine differences in the way that two newspapers covered the 1998 police killing of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old African-American woman. The oppositional thesis contends that the black and...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2004
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Social justice
Jahr: 2004, Band: 31, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 217-241 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Part of a special issue on resisting militarism and globalized punishment. The oppositional thesis is used to examine differences in the way that two newspapers covered the 1998 police killing of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old African-American woman. The oppositional thesis contends that the black and white presses are not merely different, but are oppositional. The two newspapers are the Riverside Press-Enterprise, a mainstream daily with a predominantly white readership, and the Black Voice News, a weekly publication with a predominantly black readership. |
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ISSN: | 2327-641X |