THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MEDIA AND RACE
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of perspectives, the book is divided into three sections: first, it summarizes the theoretical approaches that scholars have adopted to analyze the complexities of media messages about race and ethnicity, from the notion of representation to more recent concepts like Critical Race Theory. Second, the book reviews studies related to a variety of media, including film, television, print media, social media, music, and video games. Finally, contributors present a broad summary of media issues related to specific races and ethnicities and describe the relationship of the study of race to the study of gender and sexuality.
Christopher P. Campbell is a professor in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Race, Myth and the News (Sage Publications, 1995) and co-author of Race and News: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2011).
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Names: Campbell, Christopher, 1955- editor of compilation.
Title: The Routledge companion to media and race / edited by Christopher Campbell.
Description: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016027112| ISBN 9781138020726 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315778228 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Minorities in mass media. | Race relations in mass media. | Racism in mass media. | Mass media and race relations.
Classification: LCC P94.5.M55 R68 2017 | DDC 302.2308dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027112
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Ji-Hyun Ahn is an Assistant Professor of Global Media Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research interests include media globalization, Asian media/cultural studies, multiculturalism, and mixed-race/blood issues in East Asia. Her recent works have appeared in journals such as Media, Culture & Society and Cultural Studies .
Evelyn Alsultany is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan and Director of Arab and Muslim American Studies. She is the author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (2012). She is co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (2011) and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (2013).
Rockell A. Brown is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Texas Southern University. She is the co-author of Race and News: Critical Perspectives (2012) and book chapters about Tyler Perrys films and the black family.
Robert D. Byrd, Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Memphis. His research examines LGBTQ media and media representations via a queer lens.
Valerie J. Callanan is a Professor of Sociology at Kent State University. Her research focuses on crime-related media, fear of crime, and suicide, and has been published in Deviant Behavior , Policing & Society , Sociological Perspectives , Feminist Criminology , and Journal of Criminal Justice . She is the author of Feeding the Fear of Crime (2005).
Christopher P. Campbell is a Professor in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Race, Myth and the News (1995) and co-author of Race and News: Critical Perspectives (2012).
Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier is the James H. Shumaker Term Professor at the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the unintended effects of media messages, merging literature on implicit memory, automatic information processing, and impression formation with communication literature that highlights the complexities of news and entertainment.
Gina Masullo Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the online conversation around the news and how it influences social, civic, and political engagement. She is C o-Editor of Scandal in a Digital Age (2016) and authoring Online Incivility and Public Debate: Nasty Talk (forthcoming).
Anthony J. Cortese is a Professor of Sociology at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Ethnic Ethics: The Restructuring of Moral Theory (1990), Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising , 4th ed. (2016), Walls and Bridges: Social Justice and Public Policy (2004), and Opposing Hate Speech (2006).
Joe R. Feagin , the Ella C. McFadden Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, does research on racism, sexism, and class issues. He has published dozens of scholarly books and hundreds of scholarly articles in these research areas. Among his books are Systemic Racism (2006), Two-Faced Racism (2007, with Leslie Picca), The White Racial Frame (2nd ed., 2013), Racist America (3rd ed., 2014), White Party, White Government (2012), Latinos Facing Racism (2014, with Jose Cobas), The Myth of the Model Minority (2nd ed., 2015, with Rosalind Chou), and Liberation Sociology (3rd ed., 2015, with Hernan Vera and Kimberly Ducey).
Andrea Figueroa-Caballero is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research is focused on the cultural effects of media within the context of race/ethnicity and sexual minorities.
Celeste Gonzlez de Bustamante is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona, where she is a Distinguished 1885 Scholar and an affiliated faculty member of the U.A. Center for Latin American Studies. She is the author of Muy buenas noches : Mexico, Television and the Cold War (2012) and the co-editor of Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics (2012).
Kishonna L. Gray is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar in Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also the founder of the Critical Gaming Lab at Eastern Kentucky University, which has transformed into the Equity in Gaming Initiative. Her work broadly intersects identity and digital media although she has a particular focus on gaming. Her most recent book is Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live (2014).