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Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Authors

Dona Hoilman

Orginal Publication Date

1979

Journal Title

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Volume

2

Issue

ees/vol2/iss1

First Page

22

Last Page

30

Abstract

Marshall McLuhan contends that the electric media, television in particular, have given Americans the means of instant, total awareness both of themselves, especially of their unconscious or subliminal states, and of others, who may differ in skin color or points of view but with whom total social involvement is now not only desirable, but absolutely necessary in the ontological sense of the word. However, though television may have made us more conscious of our unconscious and more aware of the dynamic relationship between other individuals’ well-being and our own, the mutual feeding and forming and mutilating of one another’s psyches is a process as old as mankind itself and one which had been recognized long before McLuhan's observations.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1979

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