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    Racialized 'othering': the representation of asylum seekers in news media
    Guedes Bailey, Olga ; HARINDRANATH, RAMASWAMI (Open University Press, 2005)
    An incident occurred off Australian territorial waters on 26 August 2001 that had significant consequences in the Australian parliamentary elections held that year. A Norwegian ship, the Tampa, rescued 433 survivors, mostly asylum seekers, from a sinking Indonesian ferry and took them to Christmas Island , part of Australian territory. Categorizing the rescued passengers of the Tampa as 'boatpeople' and 'illegal immigrants', the ruling Liberal Party sought to appeal to sections of the electorate by having Australian Special Forces board the ship in an attempt to stop the passengers from disembarking on Christmas Island - and thus being in a position to apply for asylum. What is of interest to our present concerns, however, is the role of the press in what subsequently came to be referred to as the Tampa affair. Some of the popular newspapers carried stories which reproduced the language of the government, as indicated in the headline in the front page of the Herald Sun on 31 August 2001: 'BACK OFF: Howard rejects UN call to take illegals'.
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    Ethnicity, national culture(s) and the interpretation of television
    HARINDRANATH, RAMASWAMI (Open University Press, 2000)
    Much of the academic debates concerning 'race', ethnicity and the media have been around issues of representation, power and identity, the constraints restricting minority broadcasting, and the aesthetics of resistance. While these provide various interrogations of the notions of 'race' and ethnicity, and are necessary interventions into the politics and economics of media representations and their hegemonic role in society, this chapter shifts the focus, attempting to explore a few of the current debates regarding both media and 'race' from the perspective of the audience, through the discussion of two studies which examine the interpretations of television programmes by ethnically and/or culturally diverse audiences. We will encounter, en route, the pertinence of 'tradition' in the explanations of understanding and interpretation in philosophical hermeneutics; developments in post-colonial studies and their relevance to notions of 'race' and ethnicity in the international context; and finally, a plea towards the need to revise the questions regarding the nature of cultural imperialism.