How are the perceptions of the majority culture, the `preferred readings', reflected in television news? How do they reinforce stereotyped attitudes on race? Th

How are the perceptions of the majority culture, the `preferred readings', reflected in television news? How do they reinforce stereotyped attitudes on race? Th

“Graves’ integration of science and objective analysis with popular biological assumptions of race makes this an enlightening and provocative work.”—Boo

This book explores the written and unwritten requirements Black journalists face in their efforts to get and keep jobs in television news. Informed by interview

Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intoler