JOUR 302 Lecture 9: Historical Media Notes
26 Feb 2019
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Over the years, as our history unfolded and new groups of immigrants entered the country, the media publicly disparaged, undervalued, and dismissed each group. But with time, these groups formed their own newspapers and communication strategies that would serve and strengthen their own communities much recent media history focuses on the hard-working and talented minority leaders who launched newspapers and other media organizations. These media outlets provided minority groups with a sense of self and purpose while serving as a source of social advancement as they raised awareness and helped to change attitudes and behaviors. [while also creating a] deeply flawed national narrative that described europeans as overcoming an array of backward and violent non-white people . The topic of race and the media received significantly more attention beginning in the 1960s, but still could not be viewed as attracting widespread interest among historians. The next major wave of articles on minority media emerged in the 1980s.
