Has the information in this book change your perceptions of the experience in any way? This book is by Jannette L. Dates and William Barlow. White domination of the mass media, with its pervasive control over the portrayal and participation of African Americans in those media, has disclosed major cultural contridictions. I all the media industries surveyed in this study, white owners and producers have appropriated aspects of African American culture to enrich the ass-produced by them, howerer, have been filterd through the racial misconceptions and fantasies of the dominant white culture, which has tended to deny the existence of a rich and resilient black culture of equal worth. Has the information in this book change your perceptions of the experience in any way. When writing this paper relate the concepts of culture, ideology and hegomony to what you have read heard or seen in-text citation and work cited page.