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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808611703321

Titolo

Say it loud! : African-American audiences, media, and identity / / edited by Robin R. Means Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-8153-3762-0

1-135-21610-X

0-203-87311-4

1-135-21611-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Means ColemanRobin R. <1969->

Disciplina

302.23/089/96073

Soggetti

African Americans and mass media

Mass media - United States - Audiences

African Americans - Race identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Say It Loud!; Copyright ; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. ""Keepin It Real"" and/or ""Sellin Out to the Man"": African-American Responses to Aaron McGruders The Boondocks; 3. Black Audiences, Past and Present: Commonsense Media Critics and Activists; 4. Media Messages, Self-Identity, and Race Relations: Reader Evaluations of Newsmagazine Coverage of the Million Man March; 5. House Negro versus Field Negro: The Inscribed Image of Race in Television News Representations of African-American Identity; 6. DMX, Cosby, and Two Sides of the American Dream

7. ""It's Just Like Teaching People 'Do the Right Things'"": Using T V to Become a Good and Powerful Man8. The Cosby Show: The View from the Black Middle Class; 9. The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers; 10. ""America's Worst Nightmare"": Reading the Ghetto in a Culturally Diverse Context; 11. The Menace U Society Copycat Murder Case and Thug Life: A Reception Study with a Convicted Criminal; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.