Stereotypes in the media: So what?

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 229-247

  Gorham, Bradley W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Myth; Social Reality; Stereotypes; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937182420     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106461799246735     Document Type: Article

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