The “Great Awokening”: Racial narratives in reporting on the working class in White leftist and Black newspapers during the 2016 United States presidential election

IF 1.8 Q2 COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/10714421.2023.2194229
M. C. Thornton, Jeff Tischauser
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ABSTRACT Recent events in the United States galvanized by race have purportedly had a significant effect on the wider society’s appreciation of systemic racism, some calling this the “Great Awokening.” Some social commentators assert that it is now the norm for “leftists” to reveal “not a strain of racism,” while others argue that they are now farther left than average Black voters. We critique this assertion of a new metamorphosis among White people by exploring how White leftist print media contrasts with Black newspaper reporting on the shape of working class people during the 2016 United States presidential race. Using textual analysis, we examined articles culled from Ethnic NewsWatch (424 articles) and the Alternative Press Index (303) and found two fundamentally divergent patterns about race’s role. We found that the left-wing White press used a color-blind rhetoric to narrate stories about a racially homogenized working class, a distinctly downtrodden sector of America oppressed by elites. In utilizing a color-blind frame, the reporting failed to confront how systemic racism was a fundamental context to understanding the election. In contrast, Black newspapers described a working class world that was multiracial and actively resistant to structures of oppression.
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“大觉醒”:2016年美国总统大选期间白人左翼和黑人报纸对工人阶级报道中的种族叙事
摘要美国最近发生的由种族引发的事件据称对更广泛的社会对系统性种族主义的认识产生了重大影响,一些人称之为“大觉醒”。一些社会评论家断言,现在“左派”揭露“没有种族主义倾向”是常态,而另一些人则认为,他们现在比普通黑人选民更左倾。我们通过探索白人左派印刷媒体与黑人报纸在2016年美国总统竞选期间对工人阶级形态的报道如何形成对比,来批评白人新蜕变的说法。通过文本分析,我们检查了从《民族新闻观察》(424篇文章)和《另类新闻指数》(303篇文章)中挑选的文章,发现了关于种族角色的两种根本不同的模式。我们发现,左翼白人媒体使用了色盲修辞来讲述种族同质化的工人阶级的故事,这是美国一个明显受到精英压迫的受压迫阶层。在利用色盲框架的过程中,报告未能正视系统性种族主义是理解选举的基本背景。相比之下,黑人报纸描述了一个多种族、积极抵制压迫结构的工人阶级世界。
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