Minority Women and Western Media
Minority Women and Western Media

Author: Leticia Anderson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1498599869

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Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status. Whilst their voices are frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves. This book provides insights into how women are represented in different media, including newspapers, television shows, films, and online platforms. Scholars of media studies, women’s studies, and communication will find this book particularly useful.

Contested Images
Contested Images

Author: Alma M. Garcia

Publisher: AltaMira Press

Published: 2012-09-16

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0759119635

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Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film images, beauty images, music, and television. The articles share two intellectual traditions: the authors, predominantly women of color, use an intersectionality perspective in their analysis of popular culture and the representation of women of color, and they identify popular culture as a site of conflict and contestation. Instructors will find this collection to be a convenient textbook for women’s studies; media studies; race, class, and gender courses; ethnic studies; and more.

Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art

Author: Charmaine A. Nelson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1136968067

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This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of circulation and the consequences of consumption. She analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized western representation have been. Nelson also explores and problematizes the issue of the historically privileged white artistic access to black female bodies and the limits of representation for these subjects. This book not only reshapes our understanding of the black female representation in Western Art, but also furthers our knowledge about race and how and why it is (re)defined and (re)mobilized at specific times and places throughout history.

Algorithms of Oppression
Algorithms of Oppression

Author: Safiya Umoja Noble

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1479837245

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Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the power of algorithms -- A society, searching -- Searching for Black girls -- Searching for people and communities -- Searching for protections from search engines -- The future of knowledge in the public -- The future of information culture -- Conclusion: algorithms of oppression -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author

Representations of Black Women in the Media
Representations of Black Women in the Media

Author: Marquita Marie Gammage

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-16

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1317370473

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In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois cited the damnation of women as linked to the devaluation of motherhood. This dilemma, he argues, had a crushing blow on Black women as they were forced into slavery. Black womanhood, portrayed as hypersexual by nature, became an enduring stereotype which did not coincide with the dignity of mother and wife. This portrayal continues to reinforce negative stereotypes of Black women in the media today. This book highlights how Black women have been negatively portrayed in the media, focusing on the export nature of media and its ability to convey notions of Blackness to the public. It argues that media such as rap music videos, television dramas, reality television shows, and newscasts create and affect expectations of Black women. Exploring the role that racism, misogyny and media play in the representation of Black womanhood, it provides a foundation for challenging contemporary media’s portrayal of Black women.

Unequal Opportunities
Unequal Opportunities

Author: Margaret Gallagher

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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UNESCO pub. Monograph on unequal opportunities for women regarding their portrayal and participation in mass media - examines image, employment, working conditions, vocational training, etc. Of women in such media as radio, television, film and newspapers, the use of media in female development projects, widening of opportunities for women, etc., and includes a format (questionnaire) for media analysis. Bibliography pp. 207 to 221.

African American Women of the Old West
African American Women of the Old West

Author: Tricia Martineau Wagner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1461748429

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The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. The ten remarkable women in African American Women of the Old West were all born before 1900, some were slaves, some were free, and some lived both ways during their lifetime. Among them were laundresses, freedom advocates, journalists, educators, midwives, business proprietors, religious converts, philanthropists, mail and freight haulers, and civil and social activists.

Arab Media
Arab Media

Author: Noha Mellor

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0745637361

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This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema and new media. Through detailed discussions of the regulation and economics of these industries, the authors argue that the political, technological and cultural changes on the global media scene have resulted in the reorganization of the Arab media field. They provide striking examples of this through the particular effects on media policies, media technology and the content and genres developed for the new generation of media consumers. As part of the book's overview of the contemporary characteristics of Arab media, the authors outline the development of the role of modern Arab media from a tool of mobilizing the public to a tool of commercial and symbolic profit. Overall, the volume illustrates how the Arab region represents a unique case where the commercialization and liberalization of selected media industries has gone hand in hand with continuous state intervention and an increasing self censorship. Written for students without prior knowledge of the topic, Arab Media will be essential reading for all interested in the contemporary global media industries.

Engaged Surrender
Engaged Surrender

Author: Carolyn Moxley Rouse

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780520237940

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Described is why the Islam gives African American women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. The author did her study among the women of the Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles.

Ethnic Minorities and the Media
Ethnic Minorities and the Media

Author: Simon Cottle

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2000-12-16

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0335231233

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* What are the latest developments in the production, representation and reception of media output, produced by, for or about ethnic minorities? * What informs the questions media researchers ask and pursue when examining the mass media and ethnic minorities? * What are the principal forces of change currently shaping the field? There are few media issues more pressing, or potentially more consequential, than the representation of ethnic minorities. This authoritative text therefore brings together leading international researchers who have examined some of the latest processes of change (and continuity) informing the field of ethnic minorities and the media. Numerous studies of 'race', racism and the mass media have been conducted in the past. However, both the media landscape and the cultural field of ethnic minorities are fast changing, and this book addresses the recent developments which have threatened to outpace our ability to map, understand and intervene in processes of change. Presented in an accessible style, this book provides the reader with an overview of the very latest research findings and informed discussion. It opens with an introductory essay which maps recent approaches to the field, followed by substantive chapters which are structured thematically to address key processes of change such as media representations, media production, and cultures of identity.