Immigrant Representation in Broadcasting

In addition to the articles linked below, students at the University of Maryland have access to numerous databases and publications for further research. Click on "starting points for further media research" at the bottom of this page for suggestions. 

• Immigrants and Immigration: A Guide for Entertainment Professionals 

  From Define American (2017)
• Media Analysis of Representations of Immigrants in Popular TV Shows 

  From The Opportunity Agenda (2017)
• Missing in Action: "Framing" Race on Prime-Time Television 

  Meera E. Deo, Jenny J. Lee, Christina B. Chin, Noriko Milman and Nancy Wang Yuen
  Social Justice (2008)
  Vol. 35, No. 2 (112), pp. 145-162
• Contaminated Communities: The Metaphor of "Immigrant as Pollutant" in Media Representations of Immigration 

  J. David Cisneros
  Rhetoric and Public Affairs
  Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter 2008), pp. 569-601
• Media, Racism and Islamophobia: The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Media 

  Amir Saeed
  Sociology Compass 
  Vol. 1 No. 2 (November 2007), pp. 443-462
• A Standard for the Wise and Honest: The "Americans All...Immigrants All" Radio Broadcasts 

  Dan Shiffman
  Studies in Popular Culture
  Vol. 19, No. 1 (October 1996), pp. 99-107
• Humor and Ethnic Stereotypes in Vaudeville and Burlesque 

  Lawrence E. Mintz
  MELUS
  Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 19-28
• Radio Broadcasting, Consumer Culture, and Ethnic Identity among Italian Americans in the Interwar Years 

  Stefano Luconi
  Italian Americana
  Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 150-159
• Tokens on the Small Screen: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Prime Time and Streaming Television 

  Professors and scholars at six California universities looked at 242 broadcast, cable 
  and digital platform shows that aired during the 2015-16 season (2017).
• Sonic Intolerance: Aural Yellowface During the Golden Age of American Radio 

  Greyson Perry Neff
  Master's Thesis
  University of Louisville (2017)
• Ir Kenen Heren Mikh?: The Dawn of Yiddish Radio in New York City 

  Alexis B. Aaeng
  Undergraduate Honors Thesis
  University of Colorado - Boulder (2016)

   

  Starting points for further media research