American Otherness in Journalism: News Media Representations of Identity and Belonging

Offering a critical insight into the production, gatekeeping, and consumption of news in contemporary American society, American Otherness in Journalism lays bare embedded cultural beliefs, via mainstream news media, to ask: who gets to be represented as American, and why?

In this book Angie Chuang argues that, ever since the early 20th century, when the idea of “The (Racial) Melting Pot” became popularized, the dominant-culture conceptualization of American identity is such that some reside...