Racial and ethnic identities in the media; ed. by eleftheria arapoglou

"This volume examines the role and representation of 'race' and ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United States. It highlights contemporary work that focuses on changing meanings of racial and ethnic identity as they are represented in the media; television and film, digital and print media are under examination. Through fourteen innovative and interdisciplinary case studies written by a team of internationally based contributors, the volume identifies ways in which ethnic, racial, and national identities have been produced, reproduced, stereotyped, and contested. It showcases new emerging theoretical approaches in the field, and pays particular attention to the role of race, ethnicity, and national identity, along with communal and transnational allegiances, in the making of identities in the media. The topics of the chapters range from immigrant newspapers and gangster cinema to ethnic stand-up comedy and the use of 'race' in advertising"--Provided by publisher "Acknowledgments"--"Contents"--"Notes on the Contributors" -- "List of Figures " -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "Theoretical Framing" -- "Reviewing Contributions" -- "References" -- "Part I: Many Atlantics: Exploring Transnational Flows of Ideas and Stereotypes" -- "Chapter 2: The Red Atlantic: Travelling Debates" -- "The Red Atlantic" -- "The Tupification of Manhattan" -- "From Columbus to Cochabamba" -- "The â#x80;#x9C;Indianâ#x80;#x9D; and the Epistemological Crisis" -- "Transnational Indigenism" -- "The Postmodern Indian" -- "Acknowledgment" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: Ethnic Newspaper Writers and the Transformation of US and CircumCaribbean Literature" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: The Publishing of Protest: Brown, Pennington, and Gilpinâ#x80;#x99;s Network of Dissent" -- "The Publishing Field and the Gatekeepers" -- "The US and British Fields" -- "The Agentsâ#x80;#x99; Positions in the Fields" -- "The Agentsâ#x80;#x99; Trajectory and Habitus" -- "The Dynamics of Dissent in the Atlantic Sphere" -- "The Legitimization of Financial Support" -- "The Adaptation of Content" -- "The Generalization of Dissent" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Part II: Performed and Digitalized Identities" -- "Chapter 5: Stand-Up Comedy, Beyond the Stage: Mediated Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Citizenship" -- "Stand-Up Comedy as Activism" -- "Margaret Cho: Elections, Ethnicity, and Social Media" -- "Marga GÃ3mez: Grass-Roots Community Performer Extraordinaire" -- "Humor Activism and Virtual Mobilization: Kate Clinton and Yannis Pappas" -- "Comedic and Virtual Conclusions" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 6: The Good, the Bad, and the Blog: Reconsidered Readings of Cuban Blogging" -- "Towards More Nuanced Readings of the Cuban Blogosphere" -- "The Political Gets Personal: Dramatizing Reality or Making Drama Real?" Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 The Red Atlantic: Travelling Debates....Pages 13-40 Ethnic Newspaper Writers and the Transformation of US and CircumCaribbean Literature....Pages 41-58 The Publishing of Protest: Brown, Pennington, and Gilpin’s Network of Dissent....Pages 59-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Stand-Up Comedy, Beyond the Stage: Mediated Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Citizenship....Pages 79-94 The Good, the Bad, and the Blog: Reconsidered Readings of Cuban Blogging....Pages 95-112 Black Apollo, White Dionysus? A Two-Level Approach to Sports Heroes in Western Cultures....Pages 113-130 Front Matter....Pages 131-131 Intermedial Resignifications of Postcolonial Resistance: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Stephanie Black’s Life and Debt ....Pages 133-147 Disgrace-full: Adapting J. M. Coetzee’s Racial Revenge Novel for the Screen....Pages 149-178 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Ethnic Conflicts in Urban Landscape: Irish-American Representations in the Gangster Film Genre, 1990–2010....Pages 181-198 Everybody Loves Raymond and Sitcom’s Erasure of Difference....Pages 199-210 All My Sons: The Godfather and the Cinematic Representation of the Italian-American Family....Pages 211-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 The Sexy Aging Black Woman in US Advertisements: From Aunt Jemima to the Pro-Age Campaigns....Pages 229-244 Difference, Diversity, and the Discourse(s) of Color: Rereading Colorism in the Black Press....Pages 245-261 Women Knocking on the Golden Door (2006): Female Migrants and Cultural History Through Film....Pages 263-276 Back Matter....Pages 277-287 Annotation This volume examines the role and representation of `race' and ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United States. It highlights contemporary work that focuses on changing meanings of racial and ethnic identity as they are represented in the media; television and film, digital and print media are under examination