Hegemony or concordance? The rhetoric of tokenism in "Oprah" Winfrey's rags-to-riches biography

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-137

  Cloud, Dana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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