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• Title:Deadly fever : racism, disease and a media panic / Charles T. Adeyanju.
  
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• Author/Creator:Adeyanju, Charles T., 1969-
  
• Published/Created:Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., ©2010.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA300.DC2 A233 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Health and race--Canada--Case studies.
  Racism--Health aspects--Case studies.
  Minority women--Medical care--Canada--Case studies.
  Immigrants--Medical care--Canada--Case studies.
  Discrimination in medical care--Canada--Case studies.
  Race relations in mass media.
  Health in mass media.
  
• Medical Subjects: Minority Health.
  
• Genre/Form:Case studies.
  
• Description:135 pages ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Basics from Fernwood Publishing.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781552663417
  1552663418
  
• Contents:1. Canada: A Racialized Past
  Non-Ebola Case
  Immigration, Race and the Imagined Canadian Nation
  Racial Diversity, Anxieties and Racial Categorization
  Mass Media and Racial Representations
  Mass Media and the Racialization of Infectious Diseases
  Methodology: Content Analysis and Interviews
  Notes
  2. Media and Society
  Media and Ideology
  Framing and Ideology
  Mass Media, Moral Panic and Collective Behaviour
  Globalization, Risks and Anti-Racial-Diversity Sentiments
  Representations of Blacks in the Media
  Agency and Contested Hegemonies
  Note
  3. Media Discourse of Race, Immigration and Health Risks
  Panic
  Headlines
  Quotes and Expressions
  Imperative of Identity
  Immigration and Health Risks
  Crime and Immigration
  Substitution and Anti-Racial-Diversity Subtexts
  Agenda Setting: Editorials and Letters to the Editor
  Notes
  4. "The Unrespectable View of Society": Competing Claims
  Medical Framework
  Two Cultures
  Source of the Word "Ebola"
  Naming
  Ordinary Voices
  Voices, Representation and Power
  Notes
  5. Community Reactions
  Blacks' Perspectives and Interpretations of the Coverage
  Perception of Racism
  Public Reactions and Community Impacts
  Impacts on Non-Congolese Blacks
  Impacts on the Congolese
  Agency and Competing Perspectives
  Communal Support
  Redefining the Situation
  Formation of the Congolese Association
  Factors that Undermined Collective Black Mobilization
  Fragmentation and Absence of Black Leadership
  Cultural Capital and Recency of the Congolese
  Racism and "Self-Inflicted Alienation"
  "Immaturation" of the Panic
  Agency, Racial Consciousness and Resistance
  Notes
  6. Towards a Denouement
  Media and Social Inclusion.