Coloring in the bubble: Perspectives from black-oriented media on the (latest) economic disaster

American Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 543-570

  Squires, Catherine R ^a  

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EID: 84867359014     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: 10806490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2012.0034     Document Type: Review

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86. In addition to the kinds of media referenced earlier in this article, commentators have begun to intensify scrutiny of discourses of wealth-as-salvation in black churches as another source of neoliberalism. See, for example, comments by Fredrick C. Harris, "'Prosperity Gospel' vs. the King Legacy," New York Times, February 2, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/ roomfordebate/2012/02/02/.