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Book SynopsisAn examination of how young African-Americans are impacted by the persuasive negative images of their culture that are regularly portrayed on television. It shows how the American media has engineered a climate of ignorance and disenfranchisement by fostering misinformation and indifference.
Trade Review...a challenging, thought-provoking book depicting how television's uncanny ability to shape human perceptions and beliefs influences self-concepts. This book will be useful to historians as well as mass communications scholars. -- Dhyana Ziegler, JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA
...a challenging, thought-provoking book depicting how television's uncanny ability to shape human perceptions and beliefs influences self-concepts. This book will be useful to historians as well as mass communications scholars. -- Dhyana Ziegler, JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA
