Title: The women of South Africa weep: Explorations of gender and race in U.S. television news
Abstract: Abstract This study explores the ways in which American broadcast news stories incorporate gender and race as part of a complex process of articulating and defining social order through symbolic representation. Through the process of labeling violence in South Africa as “black‐on‐black,”; American media have succeeded in creating a racialized discourse. This racialization is part of an ideological process of classification and marginalization in which the news media participate. In the context of violence among blacks in South Africa, racialization combines with gender labeling and serves as a double jeopardy of sorts to marginalize further black South African women. It is at this intersection of race and gender, where the television images of women— black African women—play into Western cultural mythologizing of blacks and women. This study examines the images of women in 72 stories of violence among blacks in South Africa broadcast on ABC, CBS, and NBC from the June 1986 imposition of the State of Emergency to December 1990. Key Terms: South Africagenderrace“black‐on‐black,”racializationbroadcast news
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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