The Newspaper Indian
Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-1890 (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11728709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Sanchez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 672-674 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric and Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-8392 • E-ISSN: 1534-5238 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/rap.2000.0018 |
| OpenAlex | W2015967361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
John M. Coward's The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90 is a strong contribution to research engaging the complexities resulting from the nineteenth century newspaper accounts of American Indians. Through some very solid content analysis of historical American-based newspapers, this [End Page 672] book identifies just how the American press created nineteenth and twentieth century perceptions of American Indians. Coward carefully examines factual events involving American Indians and the subsequent newspaper reports or stories of these same events. The result is a lucid analysis of why perceptions of American Indians by the American public and the American press even to this day are biased, unbalanced, and unclear
Aesthetics · Art · Genealogy · Identity (music · Media studies · Native american · Newspaper · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2014 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |