Africana Race and Communication

A Social Study of Film, Communication, and Social Media

Contributions by Rockell Brown, James L. Conyers, Akil Houston, Bruce E. Johansen Jacob J. Isaacson Univers, Amber Johnson, Tristan Jones, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Calvin Monroe, TaNeisha Page, Gabrielle Shepard, Siobhan E. Smith, Valethia Watkins Edited by James L. Conyers

Publication date:

08 March 2017

Length of book:

220 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

240x157mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498538541

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

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

About the Contributors

The new book by James. L. Conyers, Jr. on Africana Race and Communication: A Social Study of Film, Communication, and Social Media speaks to the diverse and multileveled experiences of African Americans in social media. This is a timely and fascinating book that will be useful in numerous classes on black communication, the sociology of communication, and race and social media.