Cultural Politics and the Mass Media - Alaska Native Voices

Klappentext In a series of case studies! Beverly A. James and Patrick J. Daley's Cultural Politics and the Mass Media elegantly reveals how newspapers! radio stations and television programs became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural agendas of non-Native settlers. Through these empirically-grounded studies! the authors demonstrate that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy! but also on their capacity to tell their own stories. In so doing! they develop a powerful! historically grounded argument for understanding cultural persistence as a valuable and vital form of self-determination. Zusammenfassung Reveals how newspapers! radio stations and television programs became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural agendas of non-Native settlers. This work demonstrates that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy! but also on their capacity to tell their own stories.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick J. Daley, Patrick J. James Daley, Patrick J./ James Daley, Beverly James, Beverly A. James
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2004
• EAN: 9780252029387
• ISBN: 978-0-252-02938-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: History of Communication (Hard; History of Communication; The History of Media and Communication
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology