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Stereotypes Of Arab Women In Women's Magazines, Maha Khairy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume 18, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Uppers 'n' Downers, Animal Rights News, Glory: Whose Glory?, Earth Day 1990, Community News, Letters, Sometimes I Feel Like a Childless Mother, On Being Parents, How to Bring Up Your Parents Gay, Bye-Bye Babies, The Kiddie Kollege Kurriculum, Circumcision, Deciding Against Motherhood, Teach Your Children Well, Lesbian?, Dear Ms. Hippie, Women's History Month, The Farmers' Fight, News from Lambda, Action Access, Romanovsky and Phillips to Rock B/N!, Turn the Channel to Deep Dish, Women and AIDS, ACT UP / CI

Media Images Of Boston's Black Community, Kirk A. Johnson

Trotter Review

In their efforts to report on the forces that affect Boston's racial climate, the local media have typically focused on the more obvious institutional actors: businesses, city hall, school boards, churches, the courts, neighborhood groups. Rarely have the media themselves been subjected to the same scrutiny. This study represents one such effort. It is an analysis of the images of Boston's black community that are conveyed through the local news media. It asks the question: If a Bostonian relied solely on the local news for information about local blacks, what impressions would he or she be left with, and how …

Reel Blacks: A Kinder, Gentler Fbi, Patricia A. Turner

Trotter Review

Revisionist interpretations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) role in enforcing civil rights legislation and its monitoring of black activists have proliferated during the last decade. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Racial Matters by Kenneth O'Reilly, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. by David Garrow are just a few of the numerous books to chronicle the FBI's somewhat embarrassing record on race-related issues. Given this wealth of documentation in print, it is even more startling that in the …

Tainted Glory: Truth And Fiction In Contemporary Hollywood, Patricia A. Turner

Trotter Review

In the earliest days of cinema, the image of the African American on screen matched the off-screen image. When a 12-minute version of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903) was filmed, "Tom" shows were the most popular stage shows, the Stowe novel was still a top-seller, and the notion that white southerners were the real victims of the peculiar institution was gaining increasing acceptance in academic circles. When D.W. Griffith's epic and revolutionary Birth of a Nation (1915) depicted a set of stock African-American movie characters — the subservient overweight domestic servant; the indifferent, coquettish mulatto; the savage, sexually driven buck; and …

Introduction, Wornie L. Reed

Trotter Review

The mass media can be a positive or negative force in the struggle for racial progress. Unfortunately, the black community faces media that provide many negative influences. Consequently, there is a continuing need to address this issue.

In the articles in this issue of the Trotter Review we examine the current representation of blacks in the news media and representations of blacks in history through the entertainment media.

Consequences Of Racial Stereotyping, Wornie L. Reed

Trotter Review

What are the consequences of negative portrayals of blacks? As mentioned in the previous articles, the media help to provide definitions of social reality, of social situations. Attendant upon such definitions is an implicit action orientation, a recommendation as to action appropriate to the situation.

The media are a significant factor in the ongoing battle for racial progress. While some of the battles take place in official forums (i.e., governmental institutions), other battles take place in unofficial forums such as newspapers, television, radio, movies, books, and magazines. These should not be taken lightly; there is ample evidence that individuals act …

Volume 18, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Moon Turns Blue in Normal, Diet, Boycott, CIA, Art, Malls

Age, Gender, And Religious Differences In Moral Perspective, Samuel L. Clay

Theses and Dissertations

An investigation was conducted to see if age and gender are related to a preference for a caring versus a justice morality. The World View Questionnaire with 40 word pairs was used to measure a preference for a caring morality. It was found that there was a significant gender difference in the caring score, with the females scoring higher than the males. There also was a significant religious difference in the caring score with religious and especially Mormon subjects scoring higher than non-religious subjects. There was not, however, a significant age difference as was predicted.

Who's Speaking To Whom?: The Formation Of The Multicultural Radio And Television Association Of Western Australia, Natasha D. Vukelja

Theses : Honours

The fundamental aim of this dissertation will be to outline and critique the factors which have delayed the establishment of the first independent ethnic/multicultural radio station in Perth. The Multicultural Radio and Television Association of Western Australia are due to commence broadcasting on 6EBA FM on 1 December, 1990. While the Association has been broadcast·.ng through 6NR Community Access Radio for the past fourteen years, the increasing demand for air-time led them to apply for a Special Purpose, category 'S' licence through the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. The application was made in 1987, and the licence was granted after a hearing …

Rumors About Family Planning In Egypt, Jeanet Samir Azer

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume 18, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

X-mas Cheer, U.S. Drug Disinformation Frames Cuban Government, Community News, Gay and Lesbian News, Summing Up the 1988-89 Supreme Court Term--Bad News for Civil Liberties, Law and Justice in D.C., Fan Mail, U.S. Aid to Salvadoran Death Squad--NO!, Nestle Boycott Continues, Information and Contacts for Activists, New Reference Books, Fascism and the Arts, Helms and the NEA Gag Political Art, Dear Ms. Hippie

Volume 18, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Sterilize the Rich, Save the Planet; Reviews; Coming Out Day; Feminist Primer

To Tell The Truth: The Lesbian Herstory Archives: Chronicling A People And Fighting Invisibility Since 1974, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

A portrait of the Lesbian Herstory Archives by a volunteer, describing the archive in its original home in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side New York City apartment that she shared with Mabel Hampton. Originally published in Out/Week Magazine.

Volume 18, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Dress You Can Never Part With: President Bush Sets a Pattern for the '90's, Gay Stuff, Summer Vacation, Theatre, Smoking

Volume 18, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Good Feminist Primer Lesson #2, RAF Rift: Relatively Speaking, The Results Are In: Post Amerikan Opinion Poll #2, Chapter 5 of "To Live and Die for Unicor", El Camino Cruel, Christian College Tries to Sabotage Black Voters in OKC, Central Park Rape: Moral Indignation Isn't Enough, Courthouse Under Siege by Rabid Feminists, Extradition Practices Abusive, Primary Intent: Reflections on the Chair, The Politics of Video Mania, Hope I Die Before I Get Old, Oh Abbie We Hardly Knew Ye, Roe vs. Wade, Uppers 'n' Downers, Gays of Our Lives, Lambda Hires New Staff Attorney, Guatemalan Guerrillas Punish Finca Owners …

Volume 17, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Dangerous Liaisons Review, Post Amerikan's Good Feminist Primer, Iowa Meat Packer Framed by Packing Plant, Shopping for a Better World, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Surrealism, More Revelations About Gannett News Chain, Bizzare [sic] Gyration, DXL Comic, Play the Post Amerikan Game, The Dread Scott Game and the Horrors of the VFW, Community News, Sex Respect, The High School Counselors' Project, IGLTF Applauds Dixon, Guatemalan Agricultural Works Strike, Uppers and Downers

Volume 17, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Animal Rights: How Far Do They Go?, Film Review: Mississippi Burned, Comic Book Album Documents CIA Thuggery, At Home in the Police State, Musical Reflections: Remembering the Tom Robinson Band, CD Review Readers Agree: Just Say No--to Homophobia, Bush-Whacking; Bloopers, Blunders, and Nancy, Too; In Search of the Mythical Sun, FDA Okays Mail Order Drugs, Normal Vegetarian Cuisine, 'Roseanne' Strikes a Blow for Fatness, Jim and Tammy Faye ... Come Clean, "And Now Presenting the B.(unch) O.(f) P.(ricks)!", Cool TV for Young People

Lesbian And Gay, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

Publications and Research

"The time is past when librarians can assume no patron is lesbian or gay, or that there is no interest in gay research," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian and Gay' section of Katzes' 1989 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and 1995) far exceeded any mainstream library collection known to either of the authors who …

Volume 17, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

One Day in the Lives of American Children, Reflections on National Coming Out Day, The New York City Gay Men's Chorus, The Straight Cruise, Hate Crimes Act Dies in Senate, Gannett Newspaper Chain and Honest Journalism Clash, Junk Food Junkies, Open Letter from Convicted Peace Activists, The Student Movement in Guatemala: Fighting for Its Life, Boycott Nestle, Post Predictions for 1989, Let's All Shop By Mail, Community News, Black Kiss Comics Reviewed, Dear Ms. Hippie, For the Love of Animals, The Myth of Equality, Musings of an Ex-Xian

Volume 17, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Post Writers Review 4 Quick Lunch Joints in Downtown Normal, Universities Host Blanditude and Disease, Ugly American Trappers Convene, Symbolic Actions at Missile Sites Net Busts, Flaming Atheist Explains Her Point of View, Gays Take Over...At Least on These Pages, Miscellany, Ms. Hippie Gives Invaluable Advice on Boys and Sex, Bad Kids vs. Redneck Pigs, AIDS Awareness Week

Volume 17, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Funny Novel, Serialized; Double Nickel Reviewed; Advertising Ridiculed; Local Digitized Temperatures Confused; Who Gets Hurt When Too Many Animals Co-Exist?; God's Existence Debated; Community News and Letters; Trial of Protesters Detailed; Lotsa Pictures!; Visitor to Nicaragua Gives Account; Ways to Save the Environment; Don't Poke at That Fetus; Ms. Hippie's Advice to Yuppies; Dissatisfactions with Our Culture: Skinny Chauvinism and Loose Usage; Jackson Victory Reviewed; Film Stuff Mourned; Journalism Review: What They Don't Say About a Strike; Gay Stuff: Record Review with Enticing Quotations; Men Turn Monsters at Whiff of Spring

Volume 17, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Look at the Ideal Future of Birthing, OSHA Works Against Safety and Health, Brutal and Dangerous Rabbit Factory Approved, Community News Breakthroughs, Underground Artist Remembered, Movie Review in Alternative Form, The Controversial Ask Ms. Hippie, Is God Dead? You Tell Us, Nancy Reagan Ridiculed and Berated, Praiseful and Vitriolic Letters, Presidential Candidates' Stands on Gay Rights, The Underground Barfly Hits Mugsy's and Pub II

Volume 16, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Vidette Story Exposed; Ask Ms. Hippie, Our New Advice Column; Will El Salvador Explode? Well, Probably; Ecuador Story Covered in Two Very Different Ways; Robertson Deep-Sixes Own Past; Near Side Cartoon; Post Mail; The Return of Our Animal Lovin' Correspondent; Community News; Pig Course Boondoggled Through ISU; District 87 Turns to Competency-Based Learning; Homebirth and Midwifery--A Hopeful New Alternative; Outrageous Opinions About Reproduction; Comix Galore; A Review of Lambda's Latest AIDS Publication; State AIDS Testing Ridiculed; Stupid Anti-Drug Ad Ridiculed; GPA Calendar; Gay Comic Reviewed; Campaign Posters Ridiculed; Tummy Tucks, No Thanks! and Gays Can Be Cannon Fodder Too; Sexism …

Volume 16, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Visit to Electric Coffee; Changing and Unchanged; The Watkins Resignation--A Personal View; Constitution Loses Ground; There's No Place Like Home and You Can't Go Back; Your HIV Status--Do You Want to Know?; Miscellaneous AIDS Outrages; Principal Victim of Police State Tactics; The Underground Panelologist; Balrog's Best; Captain America--In Step with the Times; North, Poindexter Win Double-Speak Awards; God Changes Mind, Backs Robertson; The Underground Barfly

Media Images Of Boston's Black Community, Kirk A. Johnson

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

In their efforts to report on the forces that affect Boston's racial climate, the local media have typically focused on the more obvious institutional actors: businesses, city hall, school boards, churches, the courts, neighborhood groups. Rarely have the media themselves been subjected to the same scrutiny. This study represents one such effort It is an analysis of the images of Boston's black community that are conveyed through the local news media. It asks the question: If a Bostonian relied solely on the local news for information about local blacks, 1) what impressions would he or she be left with, and …

Volume 16, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

Volume 16, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Domestic Violence Victims to Have a Place to Turn; Kaleidoscope Bashing in Bloomington-Normal; 67 Arrested in Suburban Protest Rally; Police Pester Posters; Draft Resister Imprisoned for Non-Registration, Activism; Everybody Needs Some Body, Sometime; Michigan Womyns Music Festival; Keep Your Hands to Yourself; Iran-Scam Explained; Pope Go Home; Reagan's AIDS Commission; AIDS Needs Aid; Community News, Classified Ads and Book Review, Sexual Diversity: A Better Answer, For the Love of Animals; The Underground Vegetarian

Volume 16, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Anti-Bashing Laws: Breeders Run Amuck, Talkin' Sandinistan Revolution Blues, Nerve Gas, For the Love of Animals, AIDS, Happy Birthday!, Settlement Lets Peace Groups in High Schools, Letters, Community News, Hanford Chemical Plant, Classy Fried Ads, Cable Comix, The New Sobriety, Perverse Ideas, Coors Banned in Boston, ERA, GM, Mantra Mash '87 Artluck, Passed Normal Review, Post-Amerikan: Solid Past, Shaky Punctuation

Editor [Submitted To A Boston Daily], Mary Helen Washington

Trotter Review

Many people in the black community (I among them) strongly object to the "Frontline" documentary, "Street Cop," which was shown on Channel 2 on March 31. But I have even stronger objections to Ed Siegel's review of "Street Cop," which commends the show as "street smart" and dismisses all the serious criticisms of the show from the black community as "not convincing." I am not exactly sure why "street smart" has such a sterling quality for Siegel, but it is disturbing that such a criterion would take precedent over the criticisms that the program stereotypes blacks and Hispanics and misrepresents …