title: Media, racism and public health psychology.
abstract: International literature has established that racism contributes to ill-health of migrants, ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples. Racism generally negates wellbeing, adversely affecting physical and psychological health. Numerous studies have shown that media contribute marginalizing particular ethnic and cultural groups depicting them primarily as problems for and threats to the dominant. This articles frames media representations of, and their effect on, the indigenous Maori of Aotearoa, New Zealand within the ongoing processes of colonization. We argue that reflects the media contribution to maintenance and naturalisation of colonial relationships and seek to include critical media scholarship in a critical public health psychology.
authors.affiliation: School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. r.nairn@auckland.ac.nz
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nairn
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pega
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McCreanor
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rankine
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barnes
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D018595:Colonialism; D003146:Communications Media; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D011287:Prejudice; D011593:Psychology, Social; D011634:Public Health