1. White Norm, Black Deviation: Class, Race, and Resistance in America's "Postracial" Media Discourse.
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Fabregat, Eduard and Kperogi, Farooq A.
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MASS media criticism , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *BLACK people , *CONFLICT (Psychology) , *CORPORATIONS , *ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY , *NEWSPAPERS , *PHILOSOPHY , *RACISM , *WHITE people , *NARRATIVES - Abstract
The authors deploy Marxist theory—and Gramscian hegemonic theory in particular—to investigate the subtleties of racial "othering" in the media representations of African Americans in a putatively postracial America. The paper's objects of inquiry are an opinion article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the reaction it instigated in the Atlanta Black Star. We argue that the contestations of signification between the dominant narrative about African Americans in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the rhetorical pushback it actuated in the alternative Atlanta Black Star both reproduce and legitimate dominant media framing by highlighting the alterity of subordinate ethnic groups and providing a site for contestation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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