1st Edition
Critical Race Media Literacy Themes and Strategies for Media Education
This volume offers deeper exploration and advancement of critical race media literacy, a concept which fuses the genres of media literacy and critical media literacy with critical race theory to bring a new and salient frame to the discussion of media literacy across all levels of education in today’s globalized, race-based, and media-saturated climate.
Bridging the gap in research that has not addressed the ways in which media is a conduit of racial dialogue and ideology, the book brings together a diverse group of scholars that explore their perspectives on critical race media literacy as it is experienced from the interface and consumption of a variety of media texts and social phenomena. Topics addressed include news literacy, children’s literature, Black political movements, media protests, and ethnic rock—Critical Race Media Literacy addresses these topics within existing media literacy contexts to enhance media literacy scholarship and educational pedagogy.
This book will provide a timely and important resource not only for scholars and students of media literacy and media education but also for educators working in diverse learning settings.
Why Critical Race Media Literacy Matters
Foreword by Ronald L. Jackson II
Critical Race Media Literacy: Themes and Strategies for Media Education – An Introduction
Jayne Cubbage
1. We’ve Been Fighting: A History of Efforts to Empower “Black” Audiences Against Racist Media Messages
Jayne Cubbage
2. The Pedagogical Practice of Party of Five: A Latina/o/x-Centered Critical Race Communication Theory for Media Literacies
Claudia A. Evans-Zepeda, Sonya M. Alemán, Mari Castañeda
3. Protestors or Protectors? Critical Race Media Literacy and News Coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline Activism
Virginia McLaurin
4. Intersectional Misogyny and Racism Against Asian Women: Critical Race Media Literacy and the Atlanta Massacre
Jenny Korn
5. Critical Race Media Literacy and Fake News: Reframing and Teaching News Literacy in a Racialized Society
Alan Berry, Judith E. Rosenbaum
6. Media’s Historical and Contemporary Influence on How Black Social Movements are Viewed in the United States
Andre P. Stevenson, Vivian Shannon-Ramsey, Kyra D. Purvis, Jaida Ellis
7. Applying Critical Race Theory to Media Literacy Interventions Aimed at Recognizing Systemic Racism
Joseph Erba, Yvonnes Chen
8. The Enslavement of Children’s Literature: A Case for Critical Race Media Literacy
Denise Chapman, Chris Peers
9. “The Ship is Turning”: Enhancing Basic Skills Instruction with Critical Race Media Literacy for Students with Learning Differences
Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Kaitlyn Madigan
10. Necessary Connections: Black Lives Matter, Cultural Studies, and Critical (Race) Media Literacy
Bill Yousman
11. Ethnic Rock, or, the Transcultural Logic of Hegemony: On Chinese Ethnic Rock Music (Minzu Yaogun)
Runchao Liu
12. Teaching Late Night Laughs: Saturday Night Live, Satire, and Critical Race Media Literacy
Wendy M. Weinhold, Alison Fisher Bodkin
13. Marine or Mercy: Constructing Self, RASM, Nation, and Leadership in Eurovision and French Presidential Politics
Gordon Alley-Young
Glossary
Biography
Jayne Cubbage is Associate Professor of Communications at Bowie State University, an historically Black University in Maryland, USA, where she teaches in the Graduate Program in Organizational Communication. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Howard University and is the author of several works on media literacy in higher education. She is currently working on additional research on news literacy, media literacy, and mass communication for diverse audiences.
