Media Across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Influence (Routledge Transformations in Race and Media)

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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Contributions to Mainstream Media Culture 1 The Early Black Press in Canada 2 Increase Your Faith: The Domestication of Black Televangelism 3 Wrestling with Races: When Sitcoms, Families, and Political Struggles Meet PART II: Owning Images and Narratives 4 “(Re) defining Images of African Women”: A Postfeminist Critique of the Ghanaian YouTube Series “An African City” 5 Walking through Wakanda: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Afrofuturism in the Black Panther Comic Book PART III: Bridges Across the African Diaspora 6 Stereotyped Representations of African Cultural Values in Black Media: A Critical Analysis 7 NollywoodUSA: Opportunities and Challenges in Forging a Pan-African Storytelling and Identity PART IV: Audiences’ Responses and Effects 8 Exploring African Female Immigrants’ Perceptions of Their Portrayal in the U.S. Media 9 Hardly Ever, I Don’t See It: Black Youth Speak about Positive Media Images of Black Men 10 For Us Only? Examining the Effect of Viewing Context on Black Audiences’ Perceived Influence of Black Entertainment PART V: Digital Diaspora 11 Social Media and Social Justice Movements after the Diminution of Black-Owned Media in the United States 12 Science and Online Construction of Identity among the African Diaspora 13 ‘Prime Time’ Geographies: Dancehall Performance, Visual Communication, and the Philosophy of ‘Boundarylessness’ List of Contributors Index This volume gathers scholarship from various 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.