America's Babel of Ethnic Voices. Margaret Engel.
by Engel, Margaret; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 39Human Relations. Publisher: World & I, 2003ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Americanization | Assimilation (Sociology) | Ethnic mass media | Ethnic relations | Ethnic television broadcasting | Immigrants -- Attitudes | Immigrants -- Attitudes toward | Multiculturalism in mass mediaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "America's ethnic diversity has brought many obvious benefits to our society....But there's a new cacophony to our life, too. The age-old need to communicate is driving an explosive growth of new radio stations, newspapers, magazines, TV shows, and online services that speak primarily to individual ethnic groups." (WORLD & I) This article examines the growth and power of ethnic media in the United States today, noting "some observers see ethnic media entrenching a resistance among immigrants toward assimilation in U.S. society, but others aren't troubled, noting that America was built from its earliest years on a variety of ethnic media, whose readers were inexorably assimilated."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: America's Babel of Ethnic Voices, Aug. 2003; pp. 62-67.
"America's ethnic diversity has brought many obvious benefits to our society....But there's a new cacophony to our life, too. The age-old need to communicate is driving an explosive growth of new radio stations, newspapers, magazines, TV shows, and online services that speak primarily to individual ethnic groups." (WORLD & I) This article examines the growth and power of ethnic media in the United States today, noting "some observers see ethnic media entrenching a resistance among immigrants toward assimilation in U.S. society, but others aren't troubled, noting that America was built from its earliest years on a variety of ethnic media, whose readers were inexorably assimilated."
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