Poetry on the margins: Ghetto life 101, remorse and the new radio documentary

Journalism

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 423-439

  Ehrlich, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

David Isay; Journalism and class; Journalism and community; Journalism and ethnography; Journalism and race; LeAlan Jones; Lloyd Newman; Radio documentary; Radio news

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849111865     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14648849030044002     Document Type: Article

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