Angie Chuang -- "American Otherness in Journalism"

Angie Chuang will speak about and sign her new book, American Otherness in Journalism: News Media Representations of Identity and Belonging, on Tuesday, November 18th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore.

About the Book:

Offering a critical insight into the production, gatekeeping, and consumption of news in contemporary American society, American Otherness in Journalism lays bare embedded cultural beliefs, via mainstream news media, to ask: who gets to be represented as American, and why?

In this book Angie Chuang argues that, ever since the early 20th century, when the idea of "The (Racial) Melting Pot" became popularized, the dominant-culture conceptualization of American identity is such that some residents have always been perceived as more American than others. Combining close textual analysis of high-profile case studies with media theories of false balance, stereotypical selection, default Whiteness, and the protest paradigm, Chuang demonstrates how news media practices have created a cultural context that excludes some Americans from fully belonging to American identity.

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IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION

• Tickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).
• A coupon good for $5 off a copy of American Otherness in Journalism, or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.
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