Critical Race Theory and the American Media

This book analyses the widespread circulation of Critical Race Theory within academic and popular discourses and its relationship to media studies. It will interest critical race studies, media studies, film, television and cultural studies, ethnic studies, sociology, communication and pop culture.

Critical Race Theory and the American Media analyzes the widespread circulation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) within academic and popular discourses and its relationship to media studies.

Undertaking a two-tiered analysis of CRT and media studies, this volume showcases the wide range of media analyses conducted by a diversity of researchers that utilize CRT as a methodological and theoretical framework for demonstrating how systemic racism impacts media industries. It also analyzes how the current anti-CRT backlash that occurred throughout the American media landscape contributes to the systemic racism that perpetuates inequities and racial injustice in America.

This comprehensive study will interest students and scholars of critical race studies, media studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, American studies, ethnic studies, sociology, communication, and pop culture.

Autorentext

Sarah E. Turner is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Vermont, USA.

Sarah D. Nilsen is Full Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

PART I: Defining the Debate

2. "Critical Race Theory:" The Latest Front in the Defense of White Supremacy

3. When Interests Don't Converge: The Long History of Racism in Hollywood

PART II: Critical Race Theory: Case Studies

4. White Organizations' Engagement with Media Coverage of Critical Race Theory

5. Junk Theories: Conservative Christian Media and the Contemporary Political Attack on Critical Race Theory

6. Racializing Childhood: Migrant Children, Critical Race Theory, and Agenda Setting in Public Discourse

7. Digital Intersectional Resistance: Black Women's Responses to Mass Media Attacks

PART III: Critical Race Theory in/and Film and Television

8. Everyday White Supremacy: A Method for Detecting Interest Convergence in Film Screenwriting

9. I Would Never Make This About Race: Liberal Racism and White Nostalgia in Little Fires Everywhere

10. Cowboys and Guns: Representation and a Response to Whitewashing the West in Black Western Film

PART IV: Critical Race Theory in/and Contemporary Culture

11. Trolling Toni Morrison: Book Banning, Beloved, and Critical Race Theory

12. My Heroes Have Always Been Outlaws: Rap, Country, and the Making of Racial Meaning

13. "Not Playing the 'White Way'? Black Athletes, Media Treatment and Racial Etiquette"

Index