Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media

Critical Pedagogy, Race and Media investigates how popular media offers the potential to radicalise what and how we teach for inclusivity.

Auteur

Susan Flynn is a Lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on pedagogy, equality, diversity, inclusion, popular culture and digital technologies.

Melanie A. Marotta is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University, USA. Her research focuses on Science Fiction, Young Adult, the American West, American Literature (in particular African American literature), and Ecocriticism.

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Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media investigates how popular media offers the potential to radicalise what and how we teach for inclusivity. Bringing together established scholars in the areas of race and pedagogy, this collection offers a unique approach to critical pedagogy by analysing current and historical iterations of race onscreen.

The book forms theoretical and methodological bridges between the disciplinary fields of pedagogy, equality studies, and screen studies to explore how we might engage in and critique screen culture for teaching about race. It employs Critical Race Theory and paradigmatic frameworks to address some of the social crises in Higher Education classrooms, forging new understandings of how notions of race are buttressed by popular media. The chapters draw on popular media as a tool to explore the social, economic, and cultural dimensions of racial injustice and are grouped by Black studies, migration studies, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, and Asian studies. Each chapter addresses diversity and the necessity for teaching to include visual media which is reflective of a myriad of students' experiences.

Offering opportunities for using popular media to teach for inclusion in Higher Education, this critical and timely book will be highly relevant for academics, scholars, and students across interdisciplinary fields such as pedagogy, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, and equality studies.

Contenu

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Foreword

Jessica Berman

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Critical pedagogy, race, and media

Susan Flynn and Melanie A. Marotta

• Teaching Race in Film: Exploring Birth of a Nation and Django Unchained

Jonathan Wright

• Narratives of Institutional Racism and Social Critique in Contemporary UK Television Drama

Teresa Forde

• Digital and Decolonial Diffractions of Race and Materiality for (Post)Pandemic Education

Annouchka Bayley

• Teaching an Inclusive English Composition Course: The Vampire Genre

Melanie A. Marotta

• Refugee 2.0 - (De)constructing race, ethnicity, and identity through digital practices in refugees in camp settings and in-between places

Claudia Böhme

• Countervisual analysis of migrants' self-representational strategies in contemporary media: A pedagogical and psychological perspective

Boris Ruzic

• Playing Difference: Towards a Games of Colour Pedagogy

Edmond Y. Chang, Kishonna L. Gray and Ashlee Bird

• Reading and Writing to Reclaim Humanity: Centering the Ongoing History of Asian Exclusion in America in the (Digital) Age of Covid-19

Kathleen Tamayo Alves

• Whose Bollywood is this anyway?: Exploring Critical Frameworks for Studying Popular Hindi Cinema

Shweta Rao Garg

• Tribal Ways: How to Teach Indigenous Studies without Textbooks

Brian Wright-McLeod

• Colour-Blindness and Neoliberalism in Disney's Pocahontas

Brennan Thomas

• Beyond the Burial Ground: Reflecting on Indigenous Representation in 1970s and 1980s American Horror

Lisa Ellen Williams

• Gaming from the margins: Indigenous representation, critical gaming, and pedagogy

Wendi Sierra

• Questioning the Drug War Frame: Teaching Mexico's Violence through Documentary Representations of Race

David Shames

• "Chicken Noodle Soup" with Some Theory on the Side

  Kristen Lillvis and Ivy Scoville