Artiklen analyserer danske nyhedsmediers beskrivelser af immigranter og efterkommere. Beskrivelserne illustrerer, hvordan køn, race, seksualitet og nationalitet er forbundet og intersekterer med hinanden. Artiklen viser, hvordan beskrivelserne af minoriteterne spiller en rolle i konstruktionen af dansk nationalitet. Den viser også, hvordan opfattelser af køn og kønsmæssig ligestilling og seksuel frihed bliver centrale i forhandlingerne om national inklusion og eksklusion; samt hvordan racial hvidhed og danskhed konstrueres som kropsliggørelsen af kønsmæssig ligestilling.

This article examines the Danish news media’s portrayals of immigrants and their descendants. These portrayals provide illustrations of how gender, sexuality, race and nationality intersect. Several descriptions of immigrants have been related to descriptions of visible minority women as oppressed and visible minority males as patriarchal and sexually aggressive. In this article, I show how these descriptions have played a role in constructing images of ethnically Danish women as emancipated and sexually liberated and ethnically Danish men as respectful of women. I also show how issues of gender equality and sexual liberty have become central in negotiations about national inclusion and exclusion, and how white Danishness has become the embodiment of gender equality in the news media.