Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media

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.

Presents a critique of stereotypes as represented in dominant media Based on a transnational perspective Shows how racial and ethnic identities remain relevant in today's media

Auteur
Eleftheria Arapoglou is Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, USA, where she holds a joined appointment between the American Studies Program and the English department. She is the author of A Bridge over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of Women's Orients and she has co-edited seven volumes in the areas of cultural studies and ethnic studies.
Yiorgos Kalogeras is Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the author and editor of several books on the Greek presence in the USA. His current project is a comparative study of Greek and Italian ethnicity in film. He edits Gramma: A Journal of Theory and Criticism.
Jopi Nyman is Professor and Head of English at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, Finland. He is the author and editor of almost twenty books including the recent co-edited collections Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration andTransculturation (2014) and Affect, Space and Animals (2016).

Contenu
Introduction. Eleftheria Arapoglou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, and Jopi Nyman.- PART I.MANY ATLANTICS: EXPLORING TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS OF IDEAS AND STEREOTYPES.- 1.The Red Atlantic: Travelling Debates.Robert Stam and Ella Shohat.- 2.Ethnic Newspaper Writers and the Transformation of US and CircumCaribbean Literature.John Lowe.- 3.The Publishing of Protest: Brown, Pennington, and Gilpin's Network of Dissent.Michael Rodegang Drescher.- PART II.PERFORMED AND DIGITALIZED IDENTITIES.- 4.Stand-Up Comedy, Beyond the Stage: Mediated Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Citizenship.Raul Rúbio.- 5.The Good, the Bad, and the Blog: Reconsidered Readings of Cuban Blogging.Katherine Miranda.- 6.Black Apollo, White Dionysos? A Two-level Approach to Sports Heroes in Western Cultures.Karsten Senkbeil.- PART III.TEXTMEDIAINTERMEDIALITY: CONTESTING FORMAL AND IDEOLOGICAL NATURALIZATION.- 7.Intermedial Re-significations of Postcolonial Resistance: Jamaica Kincaid'sA Small Place and Stephanie Black's Life and Debt.Paola Ferrero.- 8.Disgrace-full: Adapting Coetzee's Racial Revenge Novel for the Screen.Page R. Laws.- PART IV.DOMESTICATING DEVIANCY: EURO-AMERICANS AND THE SOCIAL ROLE OF FILM AND TELEVISION.- 9.Ethnic Conflicts in Urban Landscape: Irish-American Representations in the Gangster Film Genre, 19902010.Magorzata Martynuska.- 10.Everybody Loves Raymond and Sitcom's Erasure of Difference.Sostene Zangari.- 11. All My Sons: The Godfather and the Cinematic Representation of the Italian-American Family.Alberto Lena.- PART V.IDENTITY AND STATUS: DISENTANGLEMENTS OF US DISCOURSES OF COLOR AND ETHNICITY.- 12.The Sexy Aging Black Woman in US Advertisements: From Aunt Jemima to the Pro-Age Campaigns.Saskia Fuerst.- 13.Difference, Diversity, and the Discourse(s) of Color: Re-Reading Colorism in the Black Press.Simone Puff.- 14.Women Knocking on the Golden Door (2006): Female Migrants and Cultural History through Film.Theodora D. Patrona