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Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English- language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert's Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the Northwest Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the "Bended Elbow" standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that the country lives in denial, failing to live up to its boosterism of the cultural mosaic.

Book details

• Full title: Seeing Red
• Subtitle: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers
• Author: Mark Cronlund Anderson, Carmen Robertson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780887557279
• ISBN: 0887557279
• ID: 11569480
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Weight: 556 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2011

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