Journal of Communication Inquiry articles

Recent articles from Journal of Communication Inquiry

White bodies and feminist dilemmas: on the complexity of positionality.(Constructing (Mis)Representations)
October 1, 1998... After spending years conducting feminist research on the media's unrealistic representations of female attractiveness, I never thought I would end up on the cover of a women's magazine. But life is full of surprises when one lives in a small Japanese village, and I decided that the experience...

From yellow peril through model minority to renewed yellow peril. (Asians in popular media)(Constructing (Mis)Representations)
October 1, 1998... Why have Asian Americans recently been depicted as villains in films?(1) Why were Korean Americans depicted mainly as merciless gun-toting vigilante shopkeepers in the Los Angeles riot news? These initial questions led me to pursue this study. In a time when Asian Americans are more and more...

Missionary voices as the discursive terrain for native resistance. (Alaska)(Constructing (Mis)Representations)
October 1, 1998... In recent years, there has been a spate of images and narratives of Alaska natives in the national media landscape. But this "northern exposure" is neither new nor culturally transparent. Euro-Americans have long been enchanted with images of the "Far North" and its exotic others, portrayed...

Living with anxiety: race and the renarration of white identity in contemporary popular culture.(Constructing (Mis)Representations)
October 1, 1998... Oh god, I feel I am falling. --Madonna, "Like a Prayer" Questioning the positionality of "whiteness" and its devious articulations in contemporary life takes us to the threshold of the new dynamics taking place in the U.S. racial order at late century. In this article, I discuss...

Cop out? The media, "Cop Killer," and the deracialization of Black rage.(Constructing (Mis)Representations)
October 1, 1998... For about seven weeks in the sizzling summer of 1992, the most contentious issue in American society was not about who deserved to be elected to the presidency in the upcoming election or what should be done to rebuild the nation's second largest city after it had suffered the worst civil...