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Resistance Advocacy as News: Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party

Resistance Advocacy as News: Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party

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General ReferenceWriting InstructionBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 1498566871
ISBN13: 9781498566872
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 9 2020
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Resistance Advocacy as News: Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party examines the Black and mainstream press's digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obama's first term. The Tea Party narrative and the white ideologies disseminated by conservative groups was, and continues to be, an intricate story for journalists to tell. This book tracks coverage of the Tea Party from the modern group's beginning in early February of 2009 until two weeks after the 2012 general presidential election in November. While many mainstream journalists either fail to recognize, or ignore all together, the racial component that the Tea Party poses to Black solidarity, this book shows that Black reporters working for the Black press absolutely recognize the racial component and provide more thorough discussions than their mainstream counterparts. Historically, the Black press has existed to fill holes of misrepresentation in the mainstream press; to that end, this book addresses questions surrounding the ongoing necessity of the Black press and whether our society is postracial, combining a quantitative analysis of implicit racial frames with a qualitative analysis of resonant myth, and providing empirical evidence that Black people still struggle to have their voices heard in the mainstream press.

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