Category: Communications/Media Studies

  • “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”: Troubling the Visual Optics of Race Flow Volume 17, Issue 9 (2013-03-28) Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies; Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies; Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign On February 26, 2013, the one year anniversary of…

  • A Verboten Topic: Elliot Rodger, ‘Mixed Race’ Identity, Internalized Racism, and Mental Health We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-05-28 Chauncey Devega, Editor and Founder The 24/7 news cycle is not interested in finding the truth about a given matter, and then subsequently offering up useful information…

  • Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen RTÉ Lyric FM 2014-05-15 Fin Keegan, Host Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard [police] in an Irish crime series,…

  • For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers McClatchy DC: Watching Washington and the World 2013-08-22 Tim Johnson, McClatchy Foreign Staff MEXICO CITY — Flip through the print publications exalting the activities of Mexico’s high society and there’s one thing you rarely find: dark-skinned people. No matter that nearly two-thirds of Mexicans consider themselves moreno, the…

  • Diversity reaches new levels in Honey Maid ads USA Today 2014-03-10 Bruce Horovitz, Marketing Reporter Honey Maid is the latest brand to launch an ad campaign featuring interracial, gay families.  USA TODAY America’s biggest brands are at an advertising crossroads, and the new diversity that their ads project has suddenly emerged as one of society’s…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…

  • Mixed Race America: Identities and Culture Fifteenth Annual American Studies Conference Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105 2014-02-27 through 2014-02-28 Keynote Address Thursday, 2014-02-27, 18:00-19:30 CST (Local Time) Alexander G. Hill Ballroom Kagin Commons, Macalester Keynote Speakers: Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington Author of: Transcending Blackness: From…

  • Obama and the Oscars: Lights, Camera, Nationalism! A Symposium About The “Obama Effect” On Film Culture DePaul University Richardson Library Rosati Room 300 2350 North Kenmore Avenue Chicago, Illinois Friday, 2014-02-28, 16:00-19:00 CST (Local Time) Moderated by: Daniel McNeil, Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies DePaul University Speakers: George Elliott Clarke,…

  • “Tuning Out Blackness” fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television.

  • Why I Can’t Be My Son’s Mother The Blog The Huffington Post 2014-02-04 Shannon Shelton Miller My 6-month-old wouldn’t smile for his stage mom, no matter what faces she made or how much she cooed in his ear. So the photographer asked for my help. I positioned myself next to the camera, directly in my…