By Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols
Our Media, now not Theirs! The Democratic fight opposed to company Media examines how the present media process within the usa undermines democracy, and what we will do to alter it. McChesney and Nichols commence through detailing how the media process has turn out to be ruled through a handful of transnational conglomerates that use their sizeable political and fiscal energy to saturate the inhabitants with advertisement messages. additional, the authors supply an research of the burgeoning media reform actions within the usa, and description methods we will be able to structurally switch the media approach via coalition paintings and movement-building: the instruments we want which will conflict for a greater media.
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More knowledge is needed on the progress of Black women law school graduates and how they enter the mainstream of the legal profession. Given the legacy of biases in the practice of law, how are their race, gender, and social-class backgrounds important in their ability to enter this profession? I begin by looking at their educational experiences, and then examine the transition from law school to where and how they practice law to provide a context for understanding the meaning of their social characteristics.
Part of that legacy is the rationales that were developed to normalize and justify exclusion. Have professionals working within mainstream settings altered illusion/myths about racial inferiority? Has the old racism morphed into a new racism that still operates to limit the economic and political power of Black professionals, as well as the images and 28 ELIZABETH HIGGINBOTHAM ideologies about them? If this is the case, how does that new racism manifest itself? What do people do to scale barriers?
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