White diasporas: Media representations of september 11 and the unbearable whiteness of being in Australia

Social Semiotics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-171

  Osuri, Goldie ^a   Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian media studies; Global media events; Race and ethnicity; September 11; Settler nationalisms; White diasporas; Whiteness studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646340801     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1035033042000238277     Document Type: Article

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