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Full-court press: How segregationist newspapers covered the championship season of an integrated Virginia high school basketball team.
- Source :
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Newspaper Research Journal . Summer2018, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p339-349. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This qualitative study examines how two small Virginia newspapers that had opposed school integration covered an integrated high school boys basketball team that won a state championship three years after the school admitted African American students. While previous studies of sports journalism have found evidence of racial bias in the depiction of black athletes, this study finds values governing community journalism, including local boosterism, trumped racial bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07395329
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Newspaper Research Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 132518594
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532918796229