Category: Communications/Media Studies

  • Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2009-10-18 through 2009-10-22 Coex, Seoul, Korea 9 pages Leong Koon Chan, Associate Professor School of Design Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Multiracialism and bilingualism are key concepts for national ideology and policy in the management of…

  • Color and Cultural Identity BlogTalkRadio Bruce Hurwitz Presents 2012-01-12, 18:00Z (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST) Bruce Hurwitz, Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ph.D. Forum introduces listeners to doctoral and post-doctoral students and their cutting-edge research in the arts, sciences, or humanities. As part of our Ph.D. Forum, I will be joined by Marcia…

  • Baseline Study on Diversity Segments: Multirace Americans Institute for Public Relations Gainesville, Florida January 2008 15 pages Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D., APR, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University Sponsored in part by ConAgra Foods, Inc. Public relations practitioners and scholars need to consider multirace Americans as an increasingly important public, with identities,…

  • The role of the media in influencing social perceptions of racial relations in Brazil Wayne State University 2006 126 pages Publication Number: AAT 3243076 ISBN: 9780542982705 Gildasio Mendes Dos Santos Based on the tenets of Social Identity Theory (SIT), Self-Categorization Theory (SDT), Cross-Group Relations (CGR) and Inter-Group Contact (IGC), this study examined how media programs…

  • Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker Platform: Journal of Media and Communication Volume 3, Issue 1, Media and “Race” (April 2011) pages 26-34 ISSN: 1836-5132 Sandy Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia Clarence Walker is recognised as one of the leading historians of American race relations, and is noted for…

  • Advertising “Interraciality” and “Multiraciality” In ObamaLand—Representations and Images in Kohl’s, Macy’s, Sears, Wal-Mart, etc. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 34th Annual National Council for Black Studies Sheraton New Orleans Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana 2010-03-17 William Berry This study examined the representation and contextualization of interraciality and multiraciality in newspaper advertising supplements .…

  • Imagining Obama: Reading Overtly and Inferentially Racist Images of our 44th President, 2007–2008 Communication Studies Volume 62, Issue 4, 2011 Special Issue:“Race Matters” in the Obama Era pages 389-405 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2011.588074 Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington In this article I analyze eight Internet images of President Barack Obama from the…

  • Multiracialism on The Real World and the Reconfiguration of Politics in MTV’s Brand During the 2000s Popular Communication Volume 8, Issue 2, 2010 pages 132-146 DOI: 10.1080/15405701003676105 Jon Kraszewski, Assistant Professor of Communication Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersery The Real World’s focus on multiracial identity is part of the MTV’s efforts to rebrand…

  • Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…

  • The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America University of Virginia Press October 2009 160 pages 5 1/2x 81/4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8139-2886-9 Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History University of California, Davis Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of…