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Critical Race Theory and the American Media book cover

1st Edition

Critical Race Theory and the American Media

Edited By Sarah E. Turner, Sarah D. Nilsen Copyright 2025
278 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Introduction,: Critical Race Theory and the American Media, Sarah E. Turner and Sarah D. Nilsen 

PART I: Defining the Debate

2. “Critical Race Theory”: The Latest Front in the Defense of White Supremacy, Ashley ("Woody") Doane

3. When Interests Don’t Converge: The Long History of Racism in Hollywood, Sarah D. Nilsen 

PART II: Critical Race Theory: Case Studies

4. White Organizations’ Engagement with Media Coverage of Critical Race Theory, Matthew W. Hughey

5. Junk Theories: Conservative Christian Media and the Contemporary Political Attack on Critical Race Theory, Robert O. Smith and Aja Y. Martinez

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

7. Digital Intersectional Resistance: Black Women’s Responses to Media Attacks, Tina M. Harris and Trina J. Wright 

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

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

9. "I Would Never Make This about Race": Liberal Racism and White Nostalgia in Little Fires Everywhere, Katherine M. Bell

10. Cowboys and Guns: Representation and a Response to Whitewashing the West in Black Western Film, Julie M. Aultman and Elizabeth Piatt

PART IV: Critical Race Theory in/and Contemporary Culture

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

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

13. Not Playing the ‘White Way’?: Black Athletes, Media Treatment, and Racial Etiquette, Pablo Bose 

Index

Biography

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.

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