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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450116803321

Autore

Newkirk Pamela

Titolo

Within the veil : black journalists, white media / / Pamela Newkirk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8147-5913-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

070/.89/96073

Soggetti

African American journalists

African Americans in the newspaper industry

African Americans - Press coverage

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Foreword by Derrick Bell; Acknowledgments; Preface; Timeline; ONE Within the Veil; TWO Into the Mainstream: A History of Strife; THREE The Bumpy Road into the Newsroom; FOUR Slaying the Dragon; FIVE Private Dilemmas, Public Strife; SIX Double Standards and the "Double-Special Burden"; SEVEN The Kerner Legacy; Appendix; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the National Press Club Prize for Media Criticism. Companion website: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authors/veil.html. Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission Report made national headlines by exposing the consistently biased coverage afforded African Americans in the mainstream media. While the report acted as a much ballyhooed wake-up call, the problems it identified have stubbornly persisted, despite the infusion of black and other racial minority journalists into the newsroom. In Within the Veil, Pamela Newkirk unmasks the ways in which race continues to influence reportage, both o