This volume examines the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. With a focus on race and gender, the chapters represent diverse approaches, including social scientific, humanistic, critical, and rhetorical. The …
This volume examines the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. With a focus on race and gender, the chapters represent diverse approaches, including social scientific, humanistic, critical, and rhetorical. The …
Racialism and the Media -- Contemporary Zip Coons: The Problem with Funny -- Ghettofabulous: How Low Can You Go? -- Advertising and Black Folks: Whassup? -- Black-ish and the Changing Nature of Black Identity -- Balancing Stereotypes: Black Male and Female Roles on Prime-Time Te…
"Racialism and Media: Black-ish, Black Jesus and the First Black American President is an exploration of how the nature of racial ideology has changed in our society. Yes, there are still ugly racists who push uglier racism, but there are also popular constructions of race routi…
"This innovative book looks at representations of ethnic and racial identities in relation to the development of urban culture in postindustrialised American cities. The concept of 'urban space' organises the detailed illustration of a series of themes which structure chapters o…
Preface -- Kairos, Kanye, and Katrina: online meditations on race and masculinity / André Brock -- "Is that a PC in your pocket, or is it something more?": the Newton PDA and white-collar masculinity / Michelle Rodino-Colocino -- Competing South Asian mas(k)ulinities: Bollywood …
"For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and mas…
The artificial white man: essays on authenticity
