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Report / Feb 12, 2009

Invisible Structures of Opportunity: How Media Depictions of Race Trivialize Issues of Diversity and Disparity

By Moira O’Neil

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Invisible Structures of Opportunity: How Media Depictions of Race Trivialize Issues of Diversity and Disparity

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This second cognitive media analysis was conducted to examine the various ways in which race is presented to readers, directly and indirectly, in the nation’s news media. More specifically, it analyzes media coverage of race over the course of one year in four issue areas: health, education, early child development and employment. The report lays out the dominant frames that are applied to race in these areas and demonstrates how these frames constrain public solutions.