Category: Communications/Media Studies

  • Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation’s racial categories and borders.

  • “I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture Issue number 13 (Spring 2009): After Post-Colonialism University of Rochester, New York Charlotte McIvor, Lecturer in Drama National University Ireland, Galway This article examines Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga‘s performance in Neil Jordan’s 2005 Breakfast…

  • This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these “texts,” Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.

  • What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial(?) Representations on a Television Sitcom Television & New Media Volume 10, Number 6 (November 2009) pages 521-535 DOI: 10.1177/1527476409340906 Jennifer Esposito, Associate Professor of Research, Measurement & Statistics Georgia State University, Atlanta This article examines ABC’s television comedy Ugly Betty,…

  • Biracial Identity in the Media Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2008-05-22 18 Pages Iliana Rucker University of New Mexico Many scholars have studied racial representations and have determined that images of racial groups we see on television shape the way we view these racial groups (Gorham, 1999; Tamborini &…

  • Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference Palmer House Hotel Hilton, Chicago, IL 2008-04-03 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government & Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Brenna Marea Powell Harvard University Vesla Weaver,…

  • Policing the Borderlands: White- and Black-American Newspaper Perceptions of Multiracial Heritage and the Idea of Race, 1996–2006 Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 105-127 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01590.x Michael C. Thornton University of Wisconsin-Madison By employing a new policy of “check all that apply,” the Census Bureau accommodated a mushrooming multiracial lobby…