Through a close analysis of Gary Clark Jr.’s “This Land” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Susan McFarlane-Alvarez locates important negotiations of what constitutes belonging and country (western).
With the casting announcement of Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, Shearon Roberts analyzes the recent history of race-swapping in Disney films.
Looking at the battle between Hannah and Luke on The Bachelorette, Matthew H. Brittingham examines the complicated intersection of faith and sex in American reality television.
Lisa Funnell asserts that the casting of a Black woman as 007 in the next James Bond installment reveals growing anxieties about minorities claiming more institutional and economic power.
Andrew Gilmore takes up Amazon’s Strangers to reveal the ways the show addresses the mainlandization of Hong Kong and the rising tide of protests against the CPC’s influence.
Mihaela Mihailova brings attention to the diversity problem in animation—both on screen and in the industry—and examines a crop of contemporary programs responding to the call.
Christina M. Knopf examines the industrial trajectory of DC Comics Bombshells, an all-female comic series that uses wartime premises to assert shifting gender roles and sexualities and foreground women in civic life and public spaces.
