
Race/Gender/Class/Media
Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers
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Book Description
Race/Gender/Class/Media considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production.
It brings together 53 readings—most are newly commissioned for this edition—by scholars representing a variety of social science and humanities disciplines. Together, these readings provide a multifaceted and often intersectional look at how race, gender, and class relate to the creation and use of media texts as well as the media texts themselves.
Designed to be flexible in the classroom, the book begins with a detailed introduction to key concepts and presents a contextualizing introduction to each of the three main sections. Each reading contains multiple It’s Your Turn activities to foster student engagement and which can serve as the basis for assignments. The book offers a list of resources—books, articles, films, and websites—that are of value to students and instructors. Several alternate Tables of Contents are provided as options for reorganizing the material and maximizing the flexibility of the readings: by site of struggle (gender, race, class), by medium (television, print, digital, etc.), and by arena (journalism, entertainment). This fourth edition also features a new text design that yields a more compact book without sacrificing any of the coverage of previous editions.
This volume is an essential introduction to interdisciplinary studies of gender, race, and class across mass media.Table of Contents
1: Laying a Foundation for Studying Race, Gender, Class, and the Media
Rebecca Ann Lind
Part I: Audiences
2: Media Effects
2.1. The Social Psychology of Stereotypes and Bias: Implications for Media Audiences
Bradley W. Gorham
2.2. Black Criminality 2.0: The Persistence of Stereotypes in the 21st Century
Travis L. Dixon
2.3. There Is Hope: Race, Gender, and the Uses and Gratifications of Social Media
Kelly Quinn and Dmitry Epstein
2.4. Body Image and Adolescent Girls’ Selfie Posting, Editing, and Investment
Jennifer Stevens Aubrey and Larissa Terán
2.5. Exploring Relationships Between Gender, Social Media Use, and Young Adults’ Well-Being
Marina Krcmar and Drew P. Cingel
2.6. The Income Gap in Online News: Analyzing the Prevalence and Influence of Partisan Slant
Alina Renee Oxendine
2.7. The Relationship Between Court Shows and Public Opinion About State Courts
Taneisha N. Means and Katha Sikka
3: Audience Studies
3.1. Re-meme-bering, Romanticizing, and Reframing the Obamas Online
Francesca Sobande
3.2. Fashioning the Ummah: A Thoroughly Modern Muslim Movement
Sabah Firoz Uddin
3.3. Challenging the Invisibility of Women’s Postpartum Scars
Scarlett Cunningham
3.4. I comment, Usted Comenta: Reader Comments on Diversity in English- and Spanish-Language Newspapers
Danny Paskin
3.5. "Somebody Is Bound to Call You Out": Young Latinos’ Digital Media Use and Political Participation
Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce, Issa Galvan, and Jené Shepherd
3.6. Arguing Over Images: Native American Mascots and Race
C. Richard King
3.7. How TV News Makes Arabs and Muslims Feel About Themselves
Dina Ibrahim and Aymen Abdel Halim
3.8. "Not Country": The CMAs and the Beyoncé Backlash
Tejan Green Waszak and Jason Takayuki Ueda
3.9. A Case Study of Race and Twitter Activism: #BamaSits in Response to Colin Kaepernick
George L. Daniels
Part II: Content
4: Journalism and Advertising
4.1. I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin’s Challenge to Whiteness and Media
Dwight E. Brooks
4.2. Framing the Immigration Story
Patti Brown
4.3. Framing Feminism
Rebecca Ann Lind and Colleen Salo Aravena
4.4. Boyfriends and Romeo Pimps: Narratives of Romance in News Coverage of Sex Trafficking
Anne Johnston and Barbara Friedman
4.5. Hispanic Cultural Identity in US Spanish-Language Newspapers
María José Coperías-Aguilar and Josep Lluís Gómez-Mompart
4.6. Disrupting the Thin, Sexy Stretch of Whiteness: Representations of Yoga Practices
Judy L. Isaksen
4.7. Political Cartoons and the Black Lives Matter Movement
Anish Vanaik, Dwaine Jengelley, and Rolfe Peterson
4.8. She’s a 10, He’s a 2: Playboy Cartoons and a Culture of Male Entitlement
Pamela Hill Nettleton
4.9. Mediating Indigenous Identity: Exploring Cultural Persistence and Revival in Moonshot
Andrew Dietzel
4.10. "The More You Subtract, the More You Add": Cutting Girls Down to Size in Advertising
Jean Kilbourne
4.11. Sex Sells—But Gender Brands
Greg Niedt and Julia C. Richmond
5: Film and Television
5.1. Race, Hierarchy, and Hyenaphobia in The Lion King
Naomi Rockler-Gladen
5.2. Lifetime's UnReal Unmakes the Rural South
Christina R. Belcher
5.3. Pretty, Big Violence in Big Little Lies
Robert Alan Brookey and Spencer Coile
5.4. Transing Sin-Dee Rella: Representations of Trans Women of Color in Sean Baker’s Tangerine
Gust A. Yep, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, and Ryan M. Lescure
5.5. "People Tell Me I’m White": Stephen Colbert and Comic Deconstruction of Colorblindness
Jonathan P. Rossing
5.6. The Chiaroscuros of White Postfeminist Empowerment in The Fall
Rebeca Maseda García and María José Gámez Fuentes
5.7. It’s Okay That We Back-Stab Each Other: Cultural Myths That Fuel the Battling Female in The Bachelor
Jennifer S. Kramer
5.8. Wicked Stepmothers Wear Dior: Hollywood’s Modern Fairy Tales
Lea M. Popielinski
5.9. Honing Hegemonic Masculinity: A Look at I Love You, Man and Get Hard
Sarah E. Fryett
5.10. Bella’s Choice: Deconstructing Ideology and Power in The Twilight Saga
Leslie A. Grinner
5.11. Mixed Romance at the Movies: Toward a Respectful Representation
Marga Altena
5.12. We Need to Talk... About Relational Conflict in Scripted Television
Cassandra Alexopoulos, Amelia Couture, and Grace Hope Wolff
6: Music and New Media
6.1. "Trust Me. I Am Not a Racist":Whiteness, Media, and Millennials
Christopher P. Campbell
6.2. Knocked Up Knockouts: Pregnancy, Media, and the Sexy Bump
Natalie Jolly
6.3. Special Rights for Queers? Content, Patterns, and Context of Anti-LGBTQ Internet Hate Speech
Cynthia A. Cooper
6.4. Not Just Jezebel: Black Women, Nicki Minaj, and Sexualized Imagery in Rap Music
Kiana Cox
6.5. Eminem’s "Love the Way You Lie" and the Normalization of Men’s Violence Against Women
Rachel Alicia Griffin and Joshua D. Phillips
6.6. Music Video Images of Ballet
Tessa Nunn
Part III: Production
7: Media Industries and Producing Media Content
7.1. "Never About My Work, Never About My Motivations": Exploring Online Experiences of Women Journalists of Color
Gina M. Chen and Paromita Pain
7.2. And Then There Were Two: Telling the Coming Out Stories of Jason Collins and Michael Sam in Sports Media
Andrew C. Billings, Leigh M. Moscowitz, and Qingru Xu
7.3. Exploring Gay/Straight Relationships on Local Television News
Mark Saxenmeyer
7.4. Target vs. Total Marketing: The Paradox of Producing Diverse Mainstream Content
Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay
7.5. Eddie Huang: Fresh Off the Boat
Dear Aunaetitrakul
7.6. Is Siri a Little Bit Racist? Recognizing and Confronting Algorithmic Bias in Emerging Media
Michael L. Austin
7.7. The Historical Contexts of Women’s and Minorities’ Access to Broadcasting
Rebecca Ann Lind
7.8. Encouraging Diverse Women's Success in Information Communication Technologies and Media Spaces
Paula Gardner and Suzanne Stein
8: Epilogue and Resources
Rebecca Ann Lind
Editor(s)
Biography
Rebecca Ann Lind is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include race, gender, class, and media; new media studies; media ethics; journalism; and audiences.