Citation

Biswas M, Kim NY. Soc. Devel. Iss. 2022; 44(1): 1-20.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, International Consortium for Social Development, Publisher University of Michigan Publishing)

DOI

10.3998/sdi.2815

PMID

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Abstract

Racial inequalities in social and economic outcomes in Baltimore City were manifested through a violent protest on April 27, 2015 around the death of a young African-American man, Freddie Gray, in police Custody. Therefore, utilizing the textual analysis method and the theory of framing, this study seeks to understand how three types of newspapers--mainstream national, ethnic/community, and local--covered the systemic issues and underlying causes of racial inequalities and injustice in Baltimore City. These newspapers brought up issues of racial inequalities in Baltimore such as unequal economic opportunities, lack of infrastructure for economic mobility, lack of quality education in Black-majority neighborhoods, and illegal drug businesses in impoverished areas in the absence of jobs.

Language: en