Book
Racialism and the media: Black Jesus, Black Twitter, and the first Black American president
Black studies & critical thinking, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc
2020
Appears in Recent Books by UI Authors
Abstract
"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 routinely woven into mediated images and messages. This book examines selected exemplars of racialism moving beyond traditional racism. In the Twenty-First century, we need a more nuanced understanding of racial constructions. Denouncing anything and everything problematic as racist or racism simply does not work, especially if we want to move toward a real solution to America's race problems. Racialism involves images and messages that are produced, distributed, and consumed repetitively and intertextually based on stereotypes, biased framing, and historical myths about African American culture. These images and messages are eventually normalized through the media, ultimately shaping and influencing societal ideology and behavior. Through the lens of critical race theory chapters examine issues of intersectionality in Crash, changing Black identity in Black-ish, the balancing of stereotypes in prime-time black male and female roles, the power of Black images and messages in advertising, the cultural wealth offered through Black Twitter, biased media framing of the first Black American President, the satirical parody of Black Jesus, contemporary Zip Coon stereotypes in film, the problematic popularity of ghettofabulous black culture, and finally the evolution of black representation in science fiction"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Racialism and the media: Black Jesus, Black Twitter, and the first Black American president
- Creators
- Venise T Berry
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing, Inc; New York, NY
- Series
- Black studies & critical thinking
- ISBN
- 1433172895; 1433172887; 9781433172892; 9781433172885
- Number of pages
- 159 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; School of Journalism and Mass Communication; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984309351602771
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