scholarly journals The Diverse City: Can you read all about it in ethnic newspapers?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Newspapers

The Diverse City: Can you read all about it in ethnic newspapers?

scholarly journals Mining ethnicity: Discourse-driven topic modelling of immigrant discourses in the USA, 1898–1920

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorella Viola ◽  
Jaap Verheul
Keyword(s):  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Reading Technique ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article aims to offer a methodological contribution to digital humanities by exploring the value of a mixed-method approach to uncover and understand historical patterns in large quantities of textual data. It refines the distant reading technique of topic modelling (TM) by using the discourse-historical approach (DHA——Wodak, 2001) in order to analyse the mechanisms underlying discursive practices in historical newspapers. Specifically, we investigate public discourses produced by Italian minorities and test the methodology on a corpus of digitized Italian ethnic newspapers published in the USA between 1898 and 1920 (ChroniclItaly—Viola, 2018). This combined methodology, which we suggest to label ‘discourse-driven topic modelling’ (DDTM), enabled us to triangulate linguistic, social, and historical data and to examine how the changing experience of migration, identity construction, and assimilation was reflected over time in the accounts of the minorities themselves. The results proved DDTM to be effective in obtaining a categorization of the topics discussed in the immigrant press. The changing distribution of topics over time revealed how the Italian immigrant community negotiated their sense of connectedness with both the host country and the homeland. At the same time, without jeopardizing the analytical depth of the findings, the method proved its value of minimizing the risk of biases when identifying the topics which stemmed from the results rather than from preconceived assumptions.

FORTY ACRES AND A CARABAO: T. THOMAS FORTUNE, NEWSPAPERS, AND THE PACIFIC'S UNSTABLE COLOR LINES, 1902–03

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Shott
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Tuskegee Institute ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Roosevelt Administration ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
Planter Class ◽  
American Labor

In late 1902, exhaustion, financial distress, and the desire for a political appointment—combined with aspirations to serve as a broker for the export of African American labor abroad—led famed African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune to secure a temporary appointment with the Roosevelt administration to investigate trade and labor in Hawaii and the Philippines. In Hawaii, Fortune was fêted by the planter class, and allied himself publicly with the educational and political philosophies of Booker T. Washington. His hopes for black emigration and land ownership, however, were vigorously opposed by most newspapers connected to the oligarchy. Hawaii's robust in-language indigenous and ethnic newspapers, meanwhile, voiced their own position on black labor. In Manila, a fiercely entrepreneurial and militaristic American press attacked Fortune. Recent scholarship ties Washington's Tuskegee Institute to a kind of “Jim Crow colonialism” abroad. An in-depth look at Fortune's journey both supports and troubles such a view. Both men hoped U.S. “expansion,” and African American participation in it, might expose not only the power of race, but also its instability and vulnerability; Fortune, in particular, saw newspapers as vital to this task.

scholarly journals How Threats Shape the Politics of Marginalized: Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Machine Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Yeon Kim ◽  
Andrew Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
R Package ◽  
Exogenous Shock ◽  
Indian American ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
September 11 Attacks ◽  
Automated Text Classification

In this study, we used a natural experiment and machine learning to examine how threats prompt information seeking among marginalized populations. We traced how the September 11 attacks, an exogenous shock, increased the interest of Arab and Indian Americans in U.S. domestic politics. We classified 5,684 Arab American and Indian American newspaper articles using machine learning and estimated that three more articles on U.S. domestic politics were published daily in the post-9/11 period than in previous years. While the natural experiment design identifies the causal relationship between the intervention and the outcome variation, an automated text classification creates essential data for such a causal identification. This project also provides an accompanying R package that makes collecting data from the largest database of ethnic newspapers published in the U.S. easier and faster.

scholarly journals Ethnic Media Election Coverage: A Content Analysis Method

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Racial Minority ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Ethnic Media ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
Election Coverage ◽  
Election News

Politicians’ recent attentiveness to ethnic media coincides with the emergence of diverse societies where linguistic, cultural, and racial minority groups are an increasingly important demographic. Not much is known, however, about how ethnic media cover elections. This paper outlines a methodology for examining election coverage by ethnic newspapers, drawing upon best practices used to analyze election news content in mainstream media, the theoretical underpinnings of journalism practice, and the author’s experience with coding ethnic news publications.

"Nannies strike back": the representation of live-in caregivers and the Live-in Caregiver Program in the mainstream and ethnic press

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Kronfli
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
Ethnic Press

Utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this study examines the representation of live-in caregivers (LC) and the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), between 2007 and 2013, in eleven mainstream Canadian newspapers (N=32) and five Filipino-Canadian newspapers (N=31). It contributes to the extant media analyses on the LCP by including the perspective of the ethnic press and, thus, the voices of LC, LC advocates, and members of the Filipino community. It also examines the recent hype surrounding the emergence of au pairing as a suitable caregiving option for Canadian families in light of the declining number of LC following the April 1, 2010 reforms to the LCP. This study concludes that the mainstream Canadian press portrayal of LC and their children is congruous with the “Problem Approach,” while that in the ethnic newspapers is congruous with the “Agency Approach” providing a space to both empower LC and resist negative mainstream portrayals.

Portrayal of Genetic Risk for Breast Cancer in Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Newspapers

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Donelle ◽  
L. Hoffman-Goetz ◽  
J. N. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers

Immigrant and Ethnic Newspapers

1988 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
Sally M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Newspapers

scholarly journals A Historical Perspective on the Development of an Ethnic Minority Consciousness in the Spanish-Language Press of the Southwest

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Nicolás Kanellos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Qualitative Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
Ethnic Press

Various scholars have treated ethnic newspapers in the United States as if they all have evolved from an immigrant press.(i) While one may accept their analysis of the functions of the ethnic press, there is a substantial and qualitative difference between newspapers that were built on an immigration base and those that developed from the experience of colonialism and racial oppression. Hispanics were subjected to “racialization”(ii) for more than a century through such doctrines as the Spanish Black Legend and Manifest Destiny during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. They were conquered and incorporated into the United States and then treated as colonial subjects as is the case of Mexicans in the Southwest and the Puerto Ricans in the Caribbean. Some were incorporated through territorial purchase as was the case of the Hispanics in Florida and Louisiana. (I would also make a case that, in many ways, Cubans and Dominicans also developed under United States domination in the twentieth century.) The subsequent migration and immigration of these peoples to the United States was often directly related to the domination of their homelands by the United States. Their immigration and subsequent cultural perspective on life in the United States, of course, has been substantially different from that of European immigrant groups. Hispanic native or ethnic minority perspective has manifested itself in the political realm, often as an attitude of entitlement to civil and political rights.

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