A sort of compassion: The washington post explains the “crisis in urban america”

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 187-203

  Parisi, Peter ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Discourse Studies; Kerner Commission; Leon Dash; Modern Racism; News Narrative; Stereotype; Washington Post

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001828190     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106461798246989     Document Type: Article

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