02882nam 2200637 a 450 991082383800332120200520144314.00-8147-5913-010.18574/nyu/9780814759134(CKB)1000000000008616(EBL)865684(OCoLC)779828187(SSID)ssj0000285639(PQKBManifestationID)11195590(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285639(PQKBWorkID)10279001(PQKB)10942058(MiAaPQ)EBC865684(OCoLC)55638550(MdBmJHUP)muse10622(Au-PeEL)EBL865684(CaPaEBR)ebr10032483(DE-B1597)547042(DE-B1597)9780814759134(EXLCZ)99100000000000861620000329d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWithin the veil black journalists, white media /Pamela Newkirk1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20001 online resource (292 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-5800-2 0-8147-5799-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.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 AuthorWinner 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 oAfrican American journalistsBiographyAfrican Americans in the newspaper industryAfrican AmericansPress coverageAfrican American journalistsAfrican Americans in the newspaper industry.African AmericansPress coverage.070/.89/96073Newkirk Pamela1674691MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823838003321Within the veil4039675UNINA