Black Press, White Press, and Their Opposition: The Case of the Police Killing of Tyisha Miller.
Part of a special issue on resisting militarism and globalized punishment. The oppositional thesis is used to examine differences in the way that two newspapers covered the 1998 police killing of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old African-American woman. The oppositional thesis contends that the black a...
| Publicado en: | Social Justice Vol. 31; no. 1/2; pp. 217 - 242 |
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Social Justice
2004
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| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on resisting militarism and globalized punishment. The oppositional thesis is used to examine differences in the way that two newspapers covered the 1998 police killing of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old African-American woman. The oppositional thesis contends that the black and white presses are not merely different, but are oppositional. The two newspapers are the Riverside Press-Enterprise, a mainstream daily with a predominantly white readership, and the Black Voice News, a weekly publication with a predominantly black readership. |
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