Black, white, and read all over: Racial reasoning and the construction of public reaction to the O. J. Simpson criminal trial verdict by the Chicago tribune and the Chicago defender

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-327

  Tucker, Lauren R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Black nationalism; Common sense; Discourse; Discursive gridlock; Frame; Frame analysis; Race; Race relations; Racial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009691304     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646179709361763     Document Type: Article

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