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From “Relevance” to “Reckoning” or, Channeling Black Lives Matter on TV – Part Two
Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University

March 14, 2022 Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University One comment

In the second part of her series focusing on Black Lives Matter television, Brandy Monk-Payton interrogates the reboot of The Wonder Years as a site for nostalgia and sentimentalism as constitutive of Black subjectivity.

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From “Relevance” to “Reckoning” or, Channeling Black Lives Matter on TV — Part One
Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University

October 18, 2021 Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University Leave a comment

Brandy Monk-Payton explores the shift from racial relevance to an active reckoning with race through the lens of Black Lives Matter television.

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Surplus Blackness
Alfred L. Martin Jr. / University Of Iowa

April 27, 2021 Alfred L. Martin Jr. / University of Iowa 2 comments

Alfred L. Martin, Jr. theorizes “surplus Blackness” in relation to the treatment of Black audiences in the culture industries.

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A Look into Digital Blackface, Culture Vultures, & How to Read Racism like Black Critical Audiences
Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington

April 27, 2021 Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington 10 comments

Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph illuminate some of the ways critical Black audiences resist culture vultures, digital Blackface, and performative activism.

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Watching Woke: An Exercise in Restraining Our Burden of Representation
Laura Irwin and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington

February 3, 2021 Laura Irwin and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington Leave a comment

Through analysis of Hulu’s Woke, Laura Irwin and Ralina L. Joseph explore the complexities of the burden of representation that Black TV faces.

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Activism or Performative Activism?: Investigating Jimmy Butler’s “No Name” NBA Jersey
Jas L. Moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington, seattle

October 26, 2020 Jas L. Moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington One comment

Jas L. Moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph illustrate the power and limitations of players’ voices in the midst of branded corporate activism.

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Race and The Unintended Consequences of Musical Reaction Videos
María Elena Cepeda / Williams College

October 25, 2020 María Elena Cepeda / Williams College One comment

Using Tim and Fred Williams’ musical reaction videos as a case study, María Elena Cepeda discusses racial and generational relations between audiences and content creators as potential drivers of change in production and marketing in the music industry.

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Witness Me: How Tiktok Users Broke With the Sociopathic American Gaze in the Wake of George Floyd’s Murder
Alex Hack / University of Southern California

September 27, 2020 Alex Hack / University of Southern California Leave a comment

Considering generational trauma along with TikTok’s algorithm, Alex Hack discusses the many TikToks that were widely circulated in response to the murder of George Floyd and how they, in many ways, managed to break past the logic of Americana.

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Insecure, Issa Rae, and The Interstitial Space of Black Female Friendships
Daelena Tinnin / University of Texas at Austin

July 29, 2019 Daelena Tinnin / University of Texas at Austin Leave a comment

Daelena Tinnin examines the dearth of black female friendships on television, the paradox of visibility, and Insecure‘s liminal possibilities.

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Moving From The Margins: Blackness, Podcasts and Racialized Audio Space
Briana Barner / University of Texas at Austin

July 30, 2018 Briana Barner / University of Texas at Austin 3 comments

Briana Barner explores the podcast as a racialized space, and gives an example of a podcast that pushes back against the notion that podcasts are a White space.

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A Pedagogical Experiment in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina

February 26, 2017 Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina 2 comments

Susan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”

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Shady is the New Black
Bambi Haggins / Arizona State University

March 28, 2016 Bambi Haggins / Arizona State University 2 comments

Bambi Haggins considers how the “shady” protagonists, Olivia, Annalise, and Cookie, ambivalently challenge previous “Super Negro” televisual representation strategies.

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31 May

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That’s a wrap on Volume 28. Shout out to our wonderful contributors and staff this past year. Also, be on the lookout out for our grad student issue that goes live in August!

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30 May

Nicole Erin Morse examines how The Matrix (1999) interrupts and deconstructs the male gaze. @cinefeminism

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