Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Seattle: Dr. King's Living Laboratory
Bruce E. Johansen
Chapter 2: #BlackLivesMatter on Twittter: A Social Network Analysis of Ferguson and Its Progeny
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
Chapter 3: Whose Order in the Court? Court Television through Feminist Lenses
Siobhan E. Smith
Chapter 4: Even Playing Field: The Role of Race in the Media's Analysis and Coverage of Black NFL Quarterbacks
Tristan Jones and Rockell Brown
Chapter 5: Televised Progress?: Politics of Televised Representation and Black Creative Control
Calvin Monroe
Chapter 6: It's Handled? Moving Beyond Olivia—Apologists to a Critical Understanding of Scandal
Akil Houston and Aretina Hamilton
Chapter 7: Race and Reflexivity: An Afrocentric Analysis of Communication in America
James L. Conyers, Jr.
Chapter 8: Mammy, Angry Black Lady, Down Ass Bitch and Beyond: Representations of Black Women in Reality Television
Rockell Brown
Chapter 9: Confessions of a Video Vixen: An Intersectional Approach to Black Sexuality and Desire
Amber Johnson
Chapter 10: Their Eyes Were Watching Django: The Misrepresentation of the Black Female in Django Unchained
Gabrielle Shepard
Chapter 11: Challenges Faced by African American Adult Students: Within Higher Education
TaNeisha Page
Chapter 12: (Black) Feminism Online: The Political Uses of Social Media and The Implications for Africana Studies
Valethia Watkins
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