Books in the Media and Minorities series

Provides a textbook overview of the past, present, and future of African Americans in US media. Brings together work from a variety of disciplines to provide the fullest understanding of this complex relationship to date.

This is the first book to provide an overview of the complex relationship between Asian Americans and the media. Synthesises a wealth of scholarship in this emergent field and also contributes its own original perspective whilst remaining pedagogically focused.

The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship withLatina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property suchstars as Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera; on theother they contribute to the role of Latina/os as eternalforeigners, having continually to assert their belonging andcitizenship.