Biased voices of sports: Racial and gender stereotyping in college basketball announcing

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 183-201

  Tyler Eastman, Susan ^a   Billings, Andrew C ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basketball Announcing; Bias; Blacks; Gender Stereotypes; Racial Stereotypes; Sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917045707     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106461701753287714     Document Type: Article

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