American Otherness in Journalism

Offering a critical insight into the production, gatekeeping, and consumption of news in contemporary American society, American Otherness in Journalism lays bare embedded cultural beliefs, via mainstream news media, to ask: who gets to be represented as American, and why?In this book Angie Chuang argues that, ever since the early 20th century, when the idea of "e;The (Racial) Melting Pot"e; becam...