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Racial Spectacles
Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice examines the crucial role the media has played in circulating and shaping national dialogues about race through representations of crime and racialized violence. Jonathan Markovitz argues that mass media \"racial spectacles\" often work to shore up racist stereotypes, but that they also provide opportunities to challenge prevalent conceptions of race, and can be seized upon as vehicles for social protest. This book explores a series of mass media spectacles revolving around the news, prime-time television, Hollywood cinema, and the internet that have either relied upon, reconfigured, or helped to construct collective memories of race, crime, and (in)justice. The case studies explored include the Scottsboro interracial rape case of the 1930s, the Kobe Bryant rape case, the Los Angeles Police Department's \"Rampart scandal,\" the Abu Ghraib photographs, and a series of racist incidents at the University of California.
This book will prove to be important not only for courses on race and media, but also for any reader interested in issues of the media's role in social justice.
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Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society
Since the early nineteenth century, African-Americans have turned to black newspapers to monitor the mainstream media and to develop alternative interpretations of public events. Ronald Jacobs tells the stories of these newspapers, showing how they increased black visibility within white civil society and helped to form separate black public spheres in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Comparing African-American and 'mainstream' media coverage of some of the most memorable racial crises of the last forty years such as the Watts riot, the beating of Rodney King, the Los Angeles uprisings and the O. J. Simpson trial, Jacobs shows why a strong African-American press is still needed today. Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society challenges us to rethink our common understandings of communication, solidarity and democracy. Its engaging style and thorough scholarship will ensure its appeal to students, academics and the general reader interested in the mass media, race and politics.
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The Palestinian idea : film, media, and the radical imagination
\"Explores the past, present, and future of Palestinian identity and culture through film and other media objects, drawing connections to Black radical thought and European cultural theory.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Africana race and communication
Africana Race and Communication: A Social Study of Film, Communication, and Social Media focuses on the areas of History, Ethos, Motif, and Mythology-Philosophy. This study is an interdisciplinary study, which surveys the collection, interpretation, and analysis of Black communication and culture. Likewise, the intellectual dexterity of Africana Studies as an interdisciplinary body of knowledge postures alternative ways of probing Africana phenomena. This volume provides a categorical lens matrix of Africana Studies to locate race and communication in place, space, and time. Thus, it provides readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and communicative essays that attempt to describe and evaluate the Africana experience from a centered perspective.
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Rolling
Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled,
intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses.
Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on
television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics,
slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas
about double consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his
theories, we know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in
ways often entirely different than for white viewers. Contributors
to this volume cover a range of cases representing African American
humor across film, television, digital media, and stand-up as Black
comic personas try to work within, outside, and around culture,
tilling for content. Essays engage with the complex industrial
interplay of Blackness, white audiences, and comedy; satire and
humor on media platforms; and the production of Blackness within
comedy through personal stories and interviews of Black production
crew and writers for television comedy.
Rolling illuminates the inner workings of Blackness and
comedy in media discourse.
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Represented : the Black imagemakers who reimagined African American citizenship
In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm, the flagship client of which was the Coca-Cola Company. As the first black pitchman for Coca-Cola, Kendrix found his way into the rarefied world of white corporate America. His personal phone book also included the names of countless black celebrities, such as bandleader Duke Ellington, singer-actress Pearl Bailey, and boxer Joe Louis, with whom he had built relationships in the course of developing marketing campaigns for his numerous federal and corporate clients. Kendrix, along with Ebony publisher John H. Johnson and Life photographer Gordon Parks, recognized that, in the image-saturated world of postwar America, media in all its forms held greater significance for defining American citizenship than ever before. For these imagemakers, the visual representation of African Americans as good citizens was good business. In Represented, Brenna Wynn Greer explores how black entrepreneurs produced magazines, photographs, and advertising that forged a close association between blackness and Americanness. In particular, they popularized conceptions of African Americans as enthusiastic consumers, a status essential to postwar citizenship claims. But their media creations were complicated: subject to marketplace dictates, they often relied on gender, class, and family stereotypes. Demand for such representations came not only from corporate and government clients to fuel mass consumerism and attract support for national efforts, such as the fight against fascism, but also from African Americans who sought depictions of blackness to counter racist ideas that undermined their rights and their national belonging as citizens. The story of how black capitalists made the market work for racial progress on their way to making money reminds us that the path to civil rights involved commercial endeavors as well as social and political activism.
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Say it loud!
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Robin R. Means Coleman is Assistant Professor of Media Ecology in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. She is author of African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy (Routledge 1998).
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