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An 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.

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...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

Televisions Imageable Influences

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    A Hardback by Camille O. Cosby

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/17/1994 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780819195210, 978-0819195210
      ISBN10: 0819195219

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An 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

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