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1. Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope

Author

Bennett, Jr., Lerone

Subjects
Boxing -- Competitions, Ethnic attitudes -- Portrayals, African American boxers -- Achievements and awards -- Appreciation, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, General interest, Appreciation, Portrayals, Achievements and awards, Competitions
Abstract

NO other single event dug so deep into world consciousness until the Lindbergh flight 17 years later. More reporters covered it than covered the Russo-Japanese War, and it received more [...]

Published
2005

2. The limits of interpretation: ambivalence and the stereotype in 'Spenser: For Hire.' (Critical Demography)

Author

Cloud, Dana L.

Subjects
Spenser: For Hire (Television program) -- Criticism and interpretation, Ethnic attitudes -- Portrayals, Blacks -- Portrayals, Business, Mass communications
Abstract

A structural analysis of the racial oppositions in the television program Spenser: For Hire challenges the interpretivist media studies claim that popular culture texts are necessarily polysemic. The article argues that representations of racial difference, in particular, are not polysemic but are rather ambivalent within the structure of the racist stereotype. The character Hawk's oppositional stance and persona, though subject to contradictory critical evaluations, serve the needs of the dominant culture to depict blacks in stereotypical ways.

Published
1992

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