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Now in its third edition, this text examines how African Americans
personally and culturally define themselves and how that definition
informs their communication habits, practices, and norms. This
edition includes new chapters that highlight discussions of gender
and sexuality, intersectional differences, contemporary social
movements, and digital and mediated communication. The book is
ideally suited for advanced students and scholars in intercultural
communication, interpersonal communication, communication theory,
African American/Black studies, gender studies, and family studies.
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his
undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and
popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built
a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African
American viewers and has become a prominent and dominant cultural
storyteller. Along with Perry's success has come scrutiny by some
social critics and Hollywood well-knowns, like Spike Lee, who have
started to deconstruct the images in Perry's films and TV shows
suggesting, as Lee did, that Perry has used his power to advance
stereotypical depictions of African Americans. The book provides a
rich and thorough overview of Tyler Perry's media works. In so
doing, contributors represent and approach their analyses of
Perry's work from a variety of theoretical and methodological
angles. The main themes explored in the volume include the
representation of (a) Black authenticity and cultural production,
(b) class, religion, and spirituality, (c) gender and sexuality,
and (d) Black love, romance, and family. Perry's critical acclaim
is also explored.
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his
undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and
popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built
a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African
American viewers and has become a prominent and dominant cultural
storyteller. Along with Perry's success has come scrutiny by some
social critics and Hollywood well-knowns, like Spike Lee, who have
started to deconstruct the images in Perry's films and TV shows
suggesting, as Lee did, that Perry has used his power to advance
stereotypical depictions of African Americans. The book provides a
rich and thorough overview of Tyler Perry's media works. In so
doing, contributors represent and approach their analyses of
Perry's work from a variety of theoretical and methodological
angles. The main themes explored in the volume include the
representation of (a) Black authenticity and cultural production,
(b) class, religion, and spirituality, (c) gender and sexuality,
and (d) Black love, romance, and family. Perry's critical acclaim
is also explored.
For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way
that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies,
asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the
context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such
as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally
instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of
masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins.
Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through
film, television, and new media, visiting representations and
marginalized identity politics while also discussing the dangers
and pitfalls of a media pedagogy that has taught audiences to
ignore, sidestep, and stereotype marginalized group realities.
While dominant portrayals of masculine versus feminine characters
pervade numerous television and film examples, this collection
examines heterosexual and queer, military and civilian, as well as
Black, Japanese, Indian, White, and Latino masculinities, offering
a variance in masculinities and confronting male privilege as
represented on screen, appealing to a range of disciplines and a
wide scope of readers.
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of African-American rhetoric within a broad historical context, exploring the major cultural and theoretical issues in the field. The 19 original essays that make up the collection look at distinct African-American rhetorical traditions such as signifyin', playin'the dozens, and call-and-response from a non-Eurocentric perspective.
Now in its third edition, this text examines how African Americans
personally and culturally define themselves and how that definition
informs their communication habits, practices, and norms. This
edition includes new chapters that highlight discussions of gender
and sexuality, intersectional differences, contemporary social
movements, and digital and mediated communication. The book is
ideally suited for advanced students and scholars in intercultural
communication, interpersonal communication, communication theory,
African American/Black studies, gender studies, and family studies.
For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the
way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies,
asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the
context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such
as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally
instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of
masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins.
Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through
film, television, and new media, visiting representations and
marginalized identity politics while also discussing the dangers
and pitfalls of a media pedagogy that has taught audiences to
ignore, sidestep, and stereotype marginalized group realities.
While dominant portrayals of masculine versus feminine characters
pervade numerous television and film examples, this collection
examines heterosexual and queer, military and civilian, as well as
Black, Japanese, Indian, White, and Latino masculinities, offering
a variance in masculinities and confronting male privilege as
represented on screen, appealing to a range of disciplines and a
wide scope of readers.
Bringing together an array of interdisciplinary voices, Global
Masculinities and Manhood examines the concept of masculinity from
the perspectives of cultures around the world. In the era of
globalization, masculinity continues to be studied in a
Western-centric context. Contributors to this volume, however,
deconstruct the history and politics of masculinities within the
contexts of the cultures from which they have been developed,
examining what makes a man who he is within his own culture.
Highlighting manifestations of masculinity in countries including
Jamaica, Turkey, Peru, Kenya, Australia, and China, scholars from a
variety of disciplines grapple with the complex politics of
identity and the question of how gender is interpreted and
practiced through discourse. Topics include how masculinity is
affected by war and conflict, defined in relation to race,
ethnicity, and sexuality, and expressed in cultural activities such
as sports or the cinema. Contributors are Bryant Keith Alexander,
Molefi K. Asante, Murali Balaji, Maurice Hall, Ronald L. Jackson
II, Shino Konishi, Nil Mutluer, Mich Nyawalo, Kathleen Glenister
Roberts, Margarita Saona, and Kath Woodward.
Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic
Work Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical
perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is
an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists
to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics,
graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to
the present, the book explores the ways in which Black comic
artists have grappled with such themes as the Black experience,
gender identity, politics and social media. Black Comics: Politics
of Race and Representation introduces students to such key texts
as: The work of Jackie Ormes Black women superheroes from Vixen to
Black Panther Aaron McGruder's strip The Boondocks
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