Cultural diversity and the U.S. media / edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour, Theresa Carilli ; foreword by George Gerbner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and index.

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Foreword / George Gerbner -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- part 1. Introductory perspectives -- 1. U.S. minorities and the news / Bradley S. Greenberg and Jeffrey E. Brand -- 2. Minority representation and portrayal in modern newsprint cartoons / Scott McLean -- 3. Disney does diversity : the social context of racial-ethnic imagery / Alan J. Spector -- . 4. Beyond employment diversity : rethinking contemporary racist news representations / Christopher P. Campbell -- part 2. Mass media and ethnicity -- 5. Hegemony in black and white : interracial buddy films and the new racism / B. Lee Artz -- 6. Black situation comedies and the politics of television art / Angela M.S. Nelson -- 7. Crawling toward civil rights : news media coverage of disability activism / Beth Haller -- 8. Media stereotypes of Jews : from JAPs to MDs / Marsha Woodbury -- 9. Still crazy after all these years : Italian Americans in mainstream U.S. films / Theresa Carilli -- 10. Ethnic humor and ingroup/outgroup positioning : explicating viewer perceptions of All-American girl / Mark P. Orbe, Ruth Seymour, and Mee-Eun Kang -- 11. Destroying the past to save the present : pastoral voice and native identity / Richard Morris and Mary E. Stuckey -- 12. Ethnic voices : afrocentric public affairs television programming / Alice A. Tait -- 13. The representation of Arabs in U.S. electronic media / Rebecca Ann Lind and James A. Danowski -- 14. Moving beyond the screen : Hollywood and Mexican American stereotypes / Fernando Delgado.

part 3. Mass media and conflicts -- 15. O.J. live : raced ways of seeing innocence and guilt / Darnell Montez Hunt -- 16. Mass-mediated realities and the Persian Gulf War : inventing the Arab enemy / Marouf Hasian, Jr. -- 17. Who's the victim? : Intercultural perceptions between African American and Korean American business people in Dallas / Meta G. Carstarphen and Tae Guk Kim -- 18. Reporting hantavirus : the impact of cultural diversity in environmental and health news / JoAnn M. Valenti -- part 4. Mass media and education -- 19. The (mis)representation of ethnicity and the omission of racism in K-12 cultural diversity curriculum / Christy Hammer -- 20. Representing Arabs : reliance on the past / Greta D. Little -- 21. Using C-SPAN to evaluate sensitivity toward cultural diversity : the case of Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign / Jim Schnell -- 22. Distortion of "Islam" and "Muslims" in American academic discourse : some observations on the sociology of vested enmity / Bud B. Khleif -- Selected bibliography -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Index.