Ethnic Minority Media: An International Perspective
London et al.: Sage (1992), 298 pp.
Contains index
Series: Communication and Human Values
ISBN 0-80394723-2
Signature commbox: 10-Minorities-E 1992
"Does minority media contribute to ethnic cohesion and cultural maintenance? Or does an ethnic media encourage assimilation into the dominant culture by espousing that culture's products, images, and values? Ethnic Minority Media explores these issues by providing a broad sampling of case studies that span a variety of ethnic minorities and countries. Each case study presents the different cultural, political, and economic conditions that figure prominently in the media's role in ethnic survival or demise. The contributors, many of them internationally regarded journalists, primarily study the print and broadcast media that minorities have established for their communities. They focus on previously neglected minority media in the United States (Hispanic and Native), Great Britain (Welsh), Ireland (Irish), Canada (Native), Australia (Aboriginal), Israel (Romanian), France (Occitan and Basque), Greenland (Inuit), Chile (Native), and Algeria (Berber). They analyze this phenomena on many levels, defining crucial terms, considering different audiences, and contrasting ethnic and mainstream media." (Publisher description)
The Media Imperative: Ethnic Minority Survival in the Age of Mass Communication, 1
I. MODELS OF ABORIGINAL SURVIVAL
1 Ethnic Broadcasting in Alaska: The Failure of a Participatory Model, 23
2 Mass Media in Greenland: The Politics of Survival, 44
3 Communication, Culture, and Technology: Satellites and Northern Native Broadcasting in Canada, 63
4 Broadcasting in Aboriginal Australia: One Mob, One Voice, One Land, 82
5 Inadvertent Assimilationism in the Canadian Native Press, 102
6 A Radio for the Mapuches of Chile: From Popular Education to Political Awareness, 127
7 Flaws in the Melting Pot: Hawaiian Media, 149
II. THE QUEST FOR MEDIA SPACE BY IMMIGRANTS AND INDIGENOUS, INTEGRATED MINORITIES
8 Local Radio and Regional Languages in Southwestern France, 165
9 Revista Mea: Keeping Alive the Romanian Community in Israel, 196
10 Minority-Language Broadcasting and the Continuation of Celtic Culture in Wales and Ireland, 217
11 The Postcolonial Policy of Algerian Broadcasting in Kabyle, 243
12 Spanish-Language Media in the Greater New York Region during the 1980s, 256
The Promise and Limits of Ethnic Minority Media, 276
I. MODELS OF ABORIGINAL SURVIVAL
1 Ethnic Broadcasting in Alaska: The Failure of a Participatory Model, 23
2 Mass Media in Greenland: The Politics of Survival, 44
3 Communication, Culture, and Technology: Satellites and Northern Native Broadcasting in Canada, 63
4 Broadcasting in Aboriginal Australia: One Mob, One Voice, One Land, 82
5 Inadvertent Assimilationism in the Canadian Native Press, 102
6 A Radio for the Mapuches of Chile: From Popular Education to Political Awareness, 127
7 Flaws in the Melting Pot: Hawaiian Media, 149
II. THE QUEST FOR MEDIA SPACE BY IMMIGRANTS AND INDIGENOUS, INTEGRATED MINORITIES
8 Local Radio and Regional Languages in Southwestern France, 165
9 Revista Mea: Keeping Alive the Romanian Community in Israel, 196
10 Minority-Language Broadcasting and the Continuation of Celtic Culture in Wales and Ireland, 217
11 The Postcolonial Policy of Algerian Broadcasting in Kabyle, 243
12 Spanish-Language Media in the Greater New York Region during the 1980s, 256
The Promise and Limits of Ethnic Minority Media, 276
