 | The Routledge Companion to Media and Race Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Language & Literature; American Studies; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Media & Film Studies; Cultural Studies; Literature; African American Studies; Cultural Theory; Popular Culture; Race & Ethnicity; Popular Music; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Media & Communications; The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of perspectives, the book is divided into three sections: first, it summarizes the theoretical approaches that scholars have adopted to analyze the complexities of media messages about race and ethnicity, from the notion of "representation" to more recent concepts like Critical Race Theory. Second, the book reviews studies related to a variety of media, including film, television, print media, social media, music, and video games. Finally, contributors present a broad summary of media issues related to specific races and ethnicities and describe the relationship of the study of race to the study of gender and sexuality. Christopher Campbell is director of the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Race, Myth and the News (Sage Publications, 1995) and co-author of Race and News: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2011). |
