From the Tomahawk Chop to the Road Block: Discourses of Savagism in Whitestream Media

Autor/in	Johnson, Daniel Morley
Titel	From the Tomahawk Chop to the Road Block: Discourses of Savagism in Whitestream Media
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 35 (2011) 1, S.104-134 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Indigenous Populations; Foreign Countries; Mass Media Use; North Americans; News Media; Mass Media Effects; American Indian History; Public Opinion; Misconceptions; Racial Bias; Stereotypes; Social Bias; Canada Natives; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sinti und Roma; Ausland; Mediennutzung; Nachrichtenwesen; Öffentliche Meinung; Missverständnis; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Klischee; USA
Abstract	Since early colonial times, Indigenous peoples on Anowarakowa Kawennote--"Great Turtle Island" in Kanienkeha (the Mohawk language)--have been represented via the imaginations of the invading European settler-colonists. Not surprisingly, such typically distorted representations have long been a part of the popular press and news media in the United States and Canada. Typically, the news media have tended to portray Natives as a conquered people, a poor minority in a rich country, militant activists, remnants of an ancient North American past, and so on. Media outlets continue to perpetuate stereotypes and inaccurate generalizations about Indigenous peoples, and aside from a few independent and Indigenous-owned media sources, the misinformation continues mostly unchallenged and unabated. This essay explores the use, perpetuation, and legitimization of anti-Indigenous rhetoric (discourses of Savagism) in media with regard to two major flashpoints of misrepresentation: (1) racist sports imagery; and (2) anticolonial Indigenous protest. (Contains 83 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10