Carol B. Conaway is associate professor emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include Jews of color, racial and ethnic conflict, gender and sexual orientation, media, social justice, and political rhetoric.
Framing Identity: The Press in Crown Heights
A paper by Carol B. Conaway, fall 1994 fellow, examines the media coverage of the 1991 Crown Heights riot, which was sparked when two Caribbean-American children were struck by an automobile in the motorcade of a Jewish sect leader. Conaway asks: How did the press frame the antagonists and the conflict that occurred in Crown