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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Autor principal: Huspek, Michael (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2004
En: Social justice
Año: 2004, Volumen: 31, Número: 1/2, Páginas: 217-241
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Publisher)
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:2327-641X