Routledge Transformations in Race and Media
About the Book Series
Today, media consumption, production and circulation are more globally connected at the interpersonal, organizational, and geopolitical level than ever before. Greater numbers of media forms exist, representing a notable diversity in form and function, use, and reception. Yesterdayโs passive media consumers are increasingly more active media producers.
These transformations in media are significant, and become all the more provocative and important when recognizing that race is shaped in and through media. This series publishes scholarship at the cutting edge of race and media with an aim not only to reflect current research, but to reshape and define future research at their intersection. Books in the series work to develop a greater understanding of how the mediated experiences of racialized beings will continue to transform human experience and relations in every aspect of daily life.
Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture
1st Edition
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By Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Jonathan I. Gayles
August 26, 2024
This volume examines the use of Black popular culture to engage, reflect, and parse social justice, arguing that Black popular culture is more than merely entertainment. Moving beyond a focus on identifying and categorizing cultural forms, the authors examine Black popular culture to understand how...
Black Women Filmmakers and Black Love on Screen
1st Edition
By Brandale N. Mills
September 30, 2020
This book offers a thorough analysis of how romantic love between Black men and women (referred to here as Black Love) is portrayed in Hollywood films, specifically from the perspective of Black female filmmakers. Using historical and contemporary images of Black female representation in the media ...
Media Across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Influence
1st Edition
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By Omotayo O. Banjo
June 30, 2020
This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and ...
Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press: Framing Dissent
1st Edition
By Sarah J. Jackson
December 19, 2018
Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and their reception in the public sphere. This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have ...
Interpreting Tyler Perry: Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
1st Edition
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By Jamel Santa Cruze Bell, Ronald L. Jackson II
December 19, 2018
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a ...
Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media
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By Jason A. Smith, Bhoomi K. Thakore
April 27, 2018
This volume explores and clarifies the complex intersection of race and media in the contemporary United States. Due to the changing dynamics of how racial politics are played out in the contemporary US (as seen with debates of the "post-racial" society), as well as the changing dynamics of the ...
The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting
1st Edition
By Kristen J. Warner
February 05, 2018
This book fills a significant gap in the critical conversation on race in media by extending interrogations of racial colorblindness in American television to the industrial practices that shape what we see on screen. Specifically, it frames the practice of colorblind casting as a potent lens for ...
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness
1st Edition
By Manoucheka Celeste
January 08, 2018
Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse black ...
Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood
1st Edition
By Marquita Marie Gammage
January 03, 2018
In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois cited the damnation of women as linked to the devaluation of motherhood. This dilemma, he argues, had a crushing blow on Black women as they were forced into slavery. Black womanhood, portrayed as hypersexual by nature, became an enduring stereotype which did not coincide ...
The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News
1st Edition
By Libby Lewis
December 22, 2017
This book explores the written and unwritten requirements Black journalists face in their efforts to get and keep jobs in television news. Informed by interviews with journalists themselves, Lewis examines how raced Black journalists and their journalism organizations process their circumstances ...