Communicating Prejudice

From: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Communicating Prejudice. Michael L. Hecht, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. 397 pp. $64 hbk. $24 pbk.

In Communicating Prejudice, Michael Hecht, who is a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Pennsylvania University, collaborates with several authors to provide a provocative, yet revealing analysis of the practice of communicating prejudice. Hecht says, such communication is all around us.

The chapters coalesce around four central metaphors for prejudice. While prejudice is described in several ways, it is explored, first, as fear of difference and/or as a threat; second, ...

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