A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Tim Havens explores the surge in high-quality black-cast dramas offered by subscription television services. By comparing contemporary series such as Showtime’s The Chi with African American television of the past, Havens asserts the industry is beginning to splinter the African American audience along divisions of taste cultures.
Read moreTim Havens considers Netflix as a case study to develop a typology for studying the role of algorithmic audience analysis in commercial African American streaming culture.
Read moreIn this article, Caetlin Benson-Allott focuses on the racist backlash to incidents of violence surrounding the release of Boyz N the Hood and other films such as New Jack City and Do The Right Thing
Read moreIn this column, Caetlin Benson-Allott argues that the moral panic following the 1979 release of The Warriors was the result of latent, coded racism on the part of both the media and the public.
Read moreIn this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Sonja Williams explores the career of Richard Durham, pioneering African American radio scriptwriter and versatile creative force.
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