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Media & Minorities

The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

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Media & Minorities

The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

Media & Minorities looks at the media's racial tendencies with an eye to identifying the "system supportive" messages conveyed and offering challenges to them. The book covers all major media--including television, film, newspapers, radio, magazines, and the Internet--and systematically analyzes their representation of the four largest minority groups in the U.S.: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Entertainment media are compared and contrasted with news media, and special attention is devoted to coverage of social movements for racial justice and politicians of color.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847694534

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9780847694532

Creating Consent of the Governed

A Member of Congress and the Local Media

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

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Creating Consent of the Governed

A Member of Congress and the Local Media

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

What would happen if local media provided information that elected representatives did not control that focused on political issues? This is the question that Stephanie Greco Larson asks--and answers--in Creating Consent of the Governed. Larson explores the role of the news media in contemporary American politics, specifically, the effect of the media on voters' evaluations of elected representatives. Larson also asks whether the press or the public is responsible for society's present inattention to issues. Larson's book is a case study of the way constituents reacted to local media coverage of Democrat Bill Nelson, representative of a congressional district in east-central Florida. The book examines the relationship between Nelson, his local press, and his constituents in order to understand the media's role in representation. Having conducted what she terms a social experiment, Larson presents the results of a panel survey of voters that measured what voters knew about Nelson and how supportive they were of him. She highlights a number of factors of growing importance in the field of political communication. For instance, How do the media affect audience perceptions? What information will change voters' attitudes? How does personality affect the popularity of a representative? Does good or bad news have a greater effect on voters? Larson concludes that the media can educate voters, but because voters often do not use the information to evaluate their legislators, the media do not facilitate issue representation.

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240

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SIU Press

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0809317877

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9780809317875

Relentless

One Woman's Story of Betrayal by the Medical System

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

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Relentless

One Woman's Story of Betrayal by the Medical System

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

Part memoir, part indictment, Relentless is one woman's honest and unflinching account of suffering from terminal cancer. In December 2006, Stephanie Greco Larson, a forty-six year old political science professor at Dickinson College, was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Oncologists told her that the disease would kill her in mere months. In the four years following her diagnosis, Larson endured being pricked, prodded, cut, injected, ignored, and scolded by doctors who tried to stave off her incurable cancer. Drafted between her diagnosis and death in 2011, Relentless provides one patient's perspective of living and dying with peritoneal cancer in the American medical system, a system she found ill-equipped to hear, treat, and comfort those with aggressive and eventually fatal forms of cancer. From health insurance to hospice care, Larson catalogs the shortcomings of the American healthcare system and its failure to serve those who cannot be cured. Larson deconstructs our society's notion that the ideal cancer patient should be the positive fighter who keeps the messy parts of the disease to herself: I'm more comfortable with the term "cancer victim," but that term is passe. It has been stripped from the discourse by those seeking agency, and ironically, by those who want to empower us. If I call myself a cancer victim, people get unhappy. They don't want to think of me as a victim. I don't fit the cowering, helpless stereotype they have in their heads. So they correct me: "You're no victim"; "You're still here, aren't you"; or the generic "Don't say that. You have to stay positive." So if I'm not a victim or a survivor, and I'm not really living with cancer or necessarily in treatment, what am I? I'd say that I am a "cancer sufferer." I am a cancer sufferer. I have cancer. I suffer from it. I am not always fighting. I am not always in treatment. I am not yet dead from cancer, but I will be in months or years, and until then, my life is fundamentally altered by the presence of cancer and the medical protocols for treating it. I am a cancer sufferer. Like fools, I don't suffer it gladly. Edited and published posthumously, Relentless is Larson's refusal to stay silent about the uncomfortable realities of her treatment and terminal illness. Under the steady hands of Meg Allen, her former student, and David Srokose, her devoted husband, this, her final rallying cry, boldly challenges readers to cease substituting catch phrases like "stay positive" and "think pink" for actual compassion. All profits from this memoir go toward the Stephanie Greco Larson Scholarship at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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David Srokose

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0991613716

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9780991613717

Media & Minorities

The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

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The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Creating Consent of the Governed

A Member of Congress and the Local Media

By: Stephanie Greco Larson

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SIU Press

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AP Achiever (Advanced Placement* Exam Preparation Guide) for AP US Government

College Test Prep

By: Stephanie Larson

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AP Achiever (Advanced Placement* Exam Preparation Guide) for AP US Government

College Test Prep

By: Stephanie Larson

Designed to help Advanced Placement students succeed in their studies and achieve a ‘5’ on the AP Exam, AP Achiever for American Government provides additional mastery tips for success on the AP Exam. Features include: ----A thorough explanation of course expectations, exam parameters, and preparation suggestions, including comprehensive tips on writing essays for the free-response section of the AP Exam. ----A comprehensive chapter summary, “Take Note” sections alerting readers of important information that will be covered on the AP Exam, “Observations from the Past Exams” discussing chapter content that has been included on past exams, key terms, and “Making Connections to Previous Chapters” sections. Sample multiple-choice and free-response questions included in every chapter. ----Two complete timed practice exams with detailed answers parallel the AP Exam in terms of question type, style, format, and number of questions, helping students gear up for your final test day. AP Achiever for US Government may be used independently or in conjunction with any US Government text. For the most benefit use in conjunction with McGraw-Hill’s leading text, The American Democracy, 7th Edition by Patterson. *AP, Advanced Placement Program, and College Board are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

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McGraw-Hill Education

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0073256633

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9780073256634

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Media & Minorities

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Creating Consent of the Governed

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Relentless

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Media & Minorities

Creating Consent of the Governed

Creating Consent of the Governed

AP Achiever (Advanced Placement* Exam Preparation Guide) for AP US Government

AP Achiever (Advanced Placement* Exam Preparation Guide) for AP US Government

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