Racializing pity: The Haiti earthquake and the plight of "others"

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-67

  Balaji, Murali ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Haiti; Media coverage of disaster; Otherness; Pity; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951803768     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2010.545703     Document Type: Article

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