Urban Nightmares

Published during the second term of an American president whose conservative agenda has been an ongoing disaster for the poor and the working class, Urban Nightmares exposes a divisive legacy of media bias against the cities and their inhabitants and issues a wake-up call to readers to recognize that media images shape what we believe about others' (and our own) place in the real world-and that the consequences of those beliefs can be devastating. Book jacket.

Steve Macek teaches media studies, urban and suburban studies, and speech communication at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois