Review Essay: Race, ethnicity and global communication studies
| Autor: | Valerie Alia, Donald Browne, John D. H. Downing, Simone Bull, Stephen Spencer, Charles Husband, Marwan M. Kraidy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Basketball
Presidential election 010405 organic chemistry Communication 05 social sciences Polarization (politics) Communication studies Ethnic group 050801 communication & media studies Gender studies Human sexuality 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Intelligentsia 0508 media and communications Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Rhetorical question Sociology |
| Zdroj: | Global Media and Communication. 3:371-383 |
| ISSN: | 1742-7673 1742-7665 |
| Popis: | Race, as Downing and Husband (2005) remind us, is a ‘social category’ without a ‘scientific basis’ (p. 2). And yet, for better or worse, race is a fundamental dimension of contemporary life, one of the few master tropes that define identities, elicit solidarities and operate as an instrument of othering. Though ‘more inclusive and less objectifying’ (Spencer, p. 45), ethnicity is a ‘transient concept’ (p. 47) that, perhaps more so than ‘race’, reflects public and scholarly understandings of difference. They can also be burning issues in the life of nations and regions. As I am writing these words, public discourse in the United States has for several weeks been agitated by radio talk-show Don Imus’s racist comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, the French intelligentsia is enjoying a collective sigh of relief at the weaker-than expected performance in the 2007 presidential election of the far-right and xenophobic French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, and sectarian polarization between Sunnis and Shi’as is gripping the Arab world, fuelled by the botched US–British occupation of Iraq, rhetorical war between the US and Iran and the consequences of the Israel–Hizbullah war in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Disciplines Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/320 Race, ethnicity and global communication studies |
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