Cultural Politics and the Mass Media

by Daley, Patrick J.; James, Beverly A.

• ISBN13: 9780252029387
• ISBN10: 0252029380
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-19
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

In a series of case studies, Beverly A. James and Patrick J. Daley's Cultural Politics and the Mass Media elegantly reveals how newspapers, radio stations and television programs became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural agendas of non-Native settlers. Through these empirically-grounded studies, the authors demonstrate that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy, but also on their capacity to tell their own stories. In so doing, they develop a powerful, historically grounded argument for understanding cultural persistence as a valuable and vital form of self-determination.

Author Biography

Beverly A. James is associate professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction: Alaska Natives' Mass-Mediated Challenges to Euro-American Cultural Hegemony	1	(20)
1. Missionary Voices as the Discursive Terrain for Native Resistance	21	(19)
2. How Raven Gave Voice to a Talking Newspaper: The Case of the Alaska Fisherman	40	(42)
3. Voices of Subsistence in the Technocratic Wilderness: Alaska Natives and the Tundra Times	82	(57)
4. Warming the Arctic Air: Cultural Politics and Alaska Native Radio	139	(22)
5. Whose Vision Is It Anyway?: Technology, Community Television, and Cultural Politics	161	(28)
Conclusion: Cultural Politics and Indigenous Public Spheres	189	(12)
References Cited	201	(14)
Index	215