Cultural Politics and the Mass Media

Alaska Native Voices
Author: Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James
Case studies in Alaskan Native political resistance using the media
Cloth – $39
978-0-252-02938-7
Publication Date
Cloth: 07/19/2004
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About the Book

In a series of case studies, Beverly A. James and Patrick J. Daley's Cultural Politics and the Mass Media elegantly reveals how newspapers, radio stations and television programs became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural agendas of non-Native settlers.

Through these empirically grounded studies, the authors demonstrate that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy, but also on their capacity to tell their own stories. In so doing, they develop a powerful, historically grounded argument for understanding cultural persistence as a valuable and vital form of self-determination.

About the Author

Patrick J. Daley is an associate professor emeritus of communication at the University of New Hampshire. Beverly A. James is a professor emerita of communication at the University of New Hampshire.