Publications

Publication details [#60320]

Strom, Megan. 2015. Social hierarchy in local Spanish-language print media: The discursive representation of Latino social actors in the United States. Discourse & Society 26 (2) : 230–252.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | press | representational structure | social inequality | social status

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

The second pattern identified in local Spanish-language print media introduces Latinos as similar or dominant to Anglo Americans and thus flattens or upturns the classic Us/Them hierarchy. This pattern points to this print media's potential to contest Latinos presumed inferior position in the US.