University of Illinois Press

Nothing

---

Author:

Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James

Pub Date:

August 2004

Pages:

256 pages

Dimensions:

6 x 9 in.

Illustrations:

4 black & white photographs, 4 line drawings

Series:

The History of Communication

Native and Indigenous Studies American Cultural History Anthropology Cultural Studies History, Am.: Colonial History, Am.: 19th C. Communications & Information See all Subjects

Cultural Politics and the Mass Media

Alaska Native Voices

Case studies in Alaskan Native political resistance using the media

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.

University of Illinois