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How the Media Compound Urban Problems
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The images from the nightly news, newsweeklies, and on the pages of our dailies reinforce an overwhelmingly negative and misleading view of urban America as mentioned in this paper, leading to a negative view of cities.Abstract:
:Major news media coverage of cities reinforces an overwhelmingly negative and misleading view of urban America. The images from the nightly news, newsweeklies, and on the pages of our dail...read more
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The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America
TL;DR: The Black Image In the White Mind: Media and Race in America by Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki as mentioned in this paper explores the effect of media on race relations as media help to shape and re-shape the culture we live in.
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The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model
TL;DR: This paper examined 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US and found that poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places.
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“Non-White” Gentrification in Chicago’s Bronzeville and Pilsen: Racial Economy and the Intraurban Contingency of Urban Redevelopment
TL;DR: For example, urban redevelopment governances are commonly treated as singular, monolithic entities that are interactively homogeneous, deploying uniform ensembles of policies and practices across their respecti...
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The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model
TL;DR: This article examined 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US and found that poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places.
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The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place
TL;DR: In this article, the relevance of growth to the interests of various social groups is examined in this context, particularly with reference to the issue of unemployment, and recent social trends in opposition to growth are described and their potential consequences evaluated.
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Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
Frances Hasso,Martin Gilens +1 more
TL;DR: Gilens as discussed by the authors showed that public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor, a perception powerfully fuelled by the media's negative coverage of the black poor.
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Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
TL;DR: Gilens as discussed by the authors showed that public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor, a perception powerfully fuelled by the media's negative coverage of the black poor.
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Better Together: Restoring the American Community
TL;DR: For instance, Putnam visited a number of places across America where individuals and groups are engaged in unusual forms of social activism and civic renewal as discussed by the authors, which are people who are renewing their communities and investing in new forms of "social capital."