Media Across the African Diaspora
Media Across the African Diaspora

Author: Omotayo O. Banjo

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-07-04

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1351660195

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This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and contributions of people of the African diaspora, the interconnections of Black American and African-centered media, and the experiences of audiences and users across the African diaspora, positioning members of the Black and African Diaspora as subjects of their own narratives, active participants and creators. In so doing, this volume addresses issues of identity, culture, audiences, and global influence. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Chapter 11 Social Media and Social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States
Chapter 11 Social Media and Social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States

Author: Jeffrey Blevins

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781138065482

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This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and contributions of people of the African diaspora, the interconnections of Black American and African-centered media, and the experiences of audiences and users across the African diaspora, positioning members of the Black and African Diaspora as subjects of their own narratives, active participants and creators. In so doing, this volume addresses issues of identity, culture, audiences, and global influence.

African Americans and the Media
African Americans and the Media

Author: Catherine Squires

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2009-10-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0745640346

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From pamphlets denouncing slavery to boycotts of Hollywood, African Americans have fought for adequate representations of themselves in the mass media industries of the United States. This book provides readers with an interdisciplinary overview of the past, present, and future of African Americans in U.S. media and the ongoing project of gaining racial equality in media: a process which spans generations. Catherine Squires introduces the reader to the varied ways in which Black Americans have navigated cultural, political, and economic obstacles both to make their own media and to critique mainstream media. Synthesizing the work of social scientists, historians, cultural critics, as well as comments from audience members and media producers, African Americans and the Media gives readers a lively entry point to classic and contemporary studies of Black Americans and mass media. Across the chapters, readers follow African Americans’ struggles to harness the power of print, broadcasting, film, and digital media, through five main themes which are woven through the book: representation, circulation, innovation, audience and responsibility. Taking in examples as diverse as Blaxploitation films, the work of 20th Century black activist journalists such as Ida B. Wells and A. Philip Randolph, and popular television such as The Cosby Show, this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of media and communications and African American studies.

Cities Imagined
Cities Imagined

Author: Walter Greason

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781524951092

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Whose images are being juxtaposed? What information is being conveyed? Which aesthetics are being valued? - Frances Gateward and John Jennings, ""The Blacker the Ink"" ""Afrofuturism is moving [toward] a more applied, theoretical, critical, and transdisciplinary approach"" - Reynaldo Anderson, ""Afrofuturism 2.0"" ""What is dark matter?"" - Sheree R. Thomas, ""Dark Matter"" Cities Imagined symbolizes the dynamic relationship between real and imagined spaces, subjects, and objects across disciplines. Forged from lifetimes of academic work that balanced critical insight with constant creativity, Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason document, analyze, and synthesize multiple traditions of critical analysis and aesthetic performance. In tracing the history of culture, identity, and structures over the twentieth century, Cities Imagined provides a framework to rethink modern history. From the emergence of the Booker T. Washington's ""Tuskegee Universe"" in the late nineteenth century through the trans-dimensional character of the comic book city and transpatial power of the Black Lives Matter moment, Cities Imagined offers a sequence of templates that will guide scholars, activists, architects, and theorists through processes of metropolitan creation in pursuit of equal justice for all people. Chambliss and Greason move their readers from the dreams of Booker T. Washington, Anna Julia Cooper, and Martin Luther King, Jr. through the recognition of Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and Sonia Sotomayor as shapers of an uncharted future. How do dreams become real? The examination of spatial change though both literature and history provides a furnace and an anvil for the creation of Audre Lorde's new tools. Cities Imagined is the hammer we all need.

Out of Many
Out of Many

Author: Brianna Savage

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This study aims to help fill the gap about the effect of social media on the Black African diaspora in the U.S. by researching how social media advertising affects consumer behavior within the Black co-cultures. Specifically, this study aims to look at how Twitter advertising affects the Black co-culture's intention to engage with the brand and intention to purchase the advertised product across diasporas. This study is an experimental research design that researches how language identified with the Black African diaspora in advertising used on Twitter affects the intention to click and purchase the advertised product. The findings indicated that when the Black African diaspora has more positive attitudes toward a Twitter ad they are more likely to engage with the sponsored ad. They are also more likely to purchase the sponsored product when their attitudes are highly positive toward a Twitter ad. Also, they are more likely to purchase the product when they engage with the advertisement. There were no significant differences found in the hypothesis that African American consumers who resonate with the AAVE style language will show higher positive attitudes toward the Twitter ad. Finally, the findings indicate that the hypothesis that the higher the ethnic identification of the audience with the culture, the higher the attitudes, engagement, and intention to purchase could only be partially supported.

Brown and Black Communication
Brown and Black Communication

Author: Diana Rios

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-07-30

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0313096783

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Though Latinos and African Americans have lived together in large cities as neighbors, there is much that is still misunderstood between them. Those who live in non-diverse locales have only news and entertainment representations on which to base their information about the two cultures. This new collection of essays brings together the latest interdisciplinary works by scholars examining conflicts and convergences among Latinos and African Americans in mass-mediated and cross-cultural contexts. Contributions in the form of both empirical and critical ethnographic research present compelling works in cross-cultural relations, news, entertainment, news media, education, and community relations. ^IBrown and Black Communication^R challenges those who do not think that significant projects and key research have been conducted on the two largest ethnic communities in the United States. Of certain appeal to both scholars and those with more applied needs in media, education, and public policy, this challenging collection offers a range of perspectives on two widely diverse bodies of American people.

African Americans in the Media Today [2 volumes]
African Americans in the Media Today [2 volumes]

Author: Sam Riley

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2007-05-30

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780313336799

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This two-volume biographical encyclopedia chronicles the success stories and considerable strides made by over 240 African American media figures from newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet.

Migrating the Black Body
Migrating the Black Body

Author: Leigh Raiford

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0295999586

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Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media—from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels—has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the travel of black bodies reflected in reciprocal black images? How is blackness forged and remade through diasporic visual encounters and reimagined through revisitations with the past? And how do visual technologies structure the way we see African subjects and subjectivity? This volume brings together an international group of scholars and artists who explore these questions in visual culture for the historical and contemporary African diaspora. Examining subjects as wide-ranging as the appearance of blackamoors in Russian and Swedish imperialist paintings, the appropriation of African and African American liberation images for Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and the role of YouTube videos in establishing connections between Ghana and its international diaspora, these essays investigate routes of migration, both voluntary and forced, stretching across space, place, and time.

International Afro Mass Media
International Afro Mass Media

Author: James Jeter

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1996-01-23

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This guide represents the first serious academic assessment of the relationships between peoples in Africa and of African descent and Afro mass media around the world. Experts on communications in sub-Saharan and North Africa and the Caribbean and African-American media in the United States characterize the settings and philosophical contexts for media in the countries that they survey; the development of often difficult relationships between government, society, and the media; the education and training of media personnel; and the implications of new technologies and future challenges. Designed for students, teachers, and professionals in communications and in the social sciences broadly. This comparative study of Afro mass media, the impact of social and political systems, of culture and ideology, of different communications mechanisms, and of special problems is designed for students, teachers, and professionals in all areas of communications and mass media, and in government, sociology, economics, and African and African-American studies.

Undercurrents of Power
Undercurrents of Power

Author: Kevin Dawson

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0812224930

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Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.