Color blind‐sided: Racial bias in network television's coverage of professional football games

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 231-239

  Rada, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultivation Theory; Kerner Commission Report; Racial bias in the mass media; Racial portrayals; Racial stereotypes; Television's coverage of professional sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937276937     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646179609361727     Document Type: Article

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