House negro versus field negro: The inscribed image of race in television news representations of African-American identity

Say it Loud!: African American Audiences, Media and Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 95-114

  Wood, Jennifer F ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203873113-10     Document Type: Chapter

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