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Deadly fever : racism, disease and a media panic

Title
Deadly fever : racism, disease and a media panic / Charles T. Adeyanju.
Author
Adeyanju, Charles T., 1969-
Publication
Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., ©2010.

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Description
135 pages
Series Statement
Ferwood basics
Uniform Title
Basics from Fernwood Publishing
Subject
  • Health and race > Canada > Case studies
  • Racism > Health aspects > Canada > Case studies
  • Minority women > Medical care > Canada > Case studies
  • Immigrants > Medical care > Canada > Case studies
  • Discrimination in medical care > Canada > Case studies
  • Race relations in mass media
  • Health in mass media
  • Prejudices
  • Minorities
  • Mass media
  • Medical care
  • Immigrants > Medical care > Canada
  • Prejudice
  • Minority Groups
  • Mass Media
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Communications Media
  • Patient Care
  • minorities
  • mass media
  • Prejudices
  • Minorities
  • Medical care
  • Mass media
  • Discrimination in medical care
  • Health and race
  • Health in mass media
  • Immigrants > Medical care
  • Minority women > Medical care
  • Race relations in mass media
  • Canada > ethnology
  • Canada
Genre/Form
  • Case Reports
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Canada: A Racialized Past -- The Non-Ebola Case -- Immigration, Race and the Imagined Canadian Nation -- Racial Diversity, Anxieties and Racial Categorization -- Mass Media and Racial Representations -- Mass Media and the Racialization of Infectious Diseases -- Methodology: Content Analysis and Interviews -- Notes -- 2. Media and Society -- Media and Ideology -- Framing and Ideology -- Mass Media, Moral Panic and Collective Behaviour -- Globalization, Risks and Anti-Racial-Diversity Sentiments -- Representations of Blacks in the Media -- Agency and Contested Hegemonies -- Note -- 3. The Media Discourse of Race, Immigration and Health Risks -- Panic -- Headlines -- Quotes and Expressions -- Imperative of Identity -- Immigration and Health Risks -- Crime and Immigration -- Substitution and Anti-Racial-Diversity Subtexts -- Agenda Setting: Editorials and Letters to the Editor -- Notes -- 4. "The Unrespectable View of Society": Competing Claims -- The Medical Framework -- Two Cultures -- The Source of the Word "Ebola" -- Naming -- Ordinary Voices -- Voices, Representation and Power -- Notes -- 5. Community Reactions -- Blacks' Perspectives and Interpretations of the Coverage -- Perception of Racism -- Public Reactions and Community Impacts -- Impacts on Non-Congolese Blacks -- Impacts on the Congolese -- Agency and Competing Perspectives -- Communal Support -- Redefining the Situation -- Formation of the Congolese Association -- Factors that Undermined Collective Black Mobilization -- Fragmentation and Absence of Black Leadership -- Cultural Capital and Recency of the Congolese -- Racism and "Self-Inflicted Alienation" -- "Immaturation" of the Panic -- Agency, Racial Consciousness and Resistance -- Notes -- 6. Towards a Denouement -- Media and Social Inclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781552663417
  • 1552663418
OCLC
  • ocn496482922
  • 496482922
  • SCSB-1551946
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library