Entertaining anti-racism. Multicultural television drama, identification and perceptions of ethnic threat

Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 239-256

  Müller, Floris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Identification; Media effects; Multicultural television; Prejudice; Social identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77449153705     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COMM.2009.016     Document Type: Article

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