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The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90 (History of Communication) - Softcover

Coward, John M.

 
9780252067389: The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90 (History of Communication)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 025206738X ISBN 13: 9780252067389
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

How newspapers shaped the image of Native Americans

John M. Coward looks at how nineteenth-century newspapers and news making practices shaped the contradictory and still persistent representation of Native Americans. As Coward reveals, journalism failed to describe Indigenous people on their own terms. Instead, reporters chose portrayals that adhered to the norms of the majority white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant society that read their papers. In addition, Coward shows how journalists turned Native Americans into symbolic and ambiguous figures used to measure American progress.

An in-depth look at the power of the press, The Newspaper Indian provides insight into how journalism wove a skewed idea of Native Americans into the fabric of American life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John M. Coward is an associate professor of communication at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press.

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Newspapers were a key source for popular opinion in the nineteenth century, and The Newspaper Indian is the first in-depth look at how newspapers and news-making practices shaped the representation of Native Americans, a contradictory representation that has carried over into our own time. John M. Coward examines seven decades of newspaper reporting, showing how journalism has perpetuated the many stereotypes of the American Indian.

Indians were not described on their own terms but by the norms of the white society that wrote and read about them. Coward looks at how Native Americans were representated (and misrepresented) in the media and shows how Americans turned native people into symbolic and ambiguous figures whose identities were used as a measure of American Progress.

A fascinating look at a nation and the power of its press, The Newspaper Indian demonstrates how images of Native Americans have been woven into the very fabric of American life.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
025206738X
ISBN 13 
9780252067389
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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