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This volume offers deeper exploration and advancement of critical race media literacy, a concept which fuses the genres of media literacy and critical media literacy with critical race theory to bring a new and salient frame to the discussion of media literacy across all levels of education in today's media saturated climate.
List of contents
Why Critical Race Media Literacy Matters Foreword by Ronald L. Jackson II; Critical Race Media Literacy: Themes and Strategies for Media Education – An Introduction; 1. We’ve Been Fighting: A History of Efforts to Empower “Black” Audiences Against Racist Media Messages; 2. The Pedagogical Practice of Party of Five: A Latina/o/x-Centered Critical Race Communication Theory for Media Literacies; 3. Protestors or Protectors? Critical Race Media Literacy and News Coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline Activism; 4. Intersectional Misogyny and Racism Against Asian Women: Critical Race Media Literacy and the Atlanta Massacre; 5. Critical Race Media Literacy and Fake News: Reframing and Teaching News Literacy in a Racialized Society; 6. Media’s Historical and Contemporary Influence on How Black Social Movements are Viewed in the United States; 7. Applying Critical Race Theory to Media Literacy Interventions Aimed at Recognizing Systemic Racism; 8. The Enslavement of Children’s Literature: A Case for Critical Race Media Literacy; 9. “The Ship is Turning”: Enhancing Basic Skills Instruction with Critical Race Media Literacy for Students with Learning Differences; 10. Necessary Connections: Black Lives Matter, Cultural Studies, and Critical (Race) Media Literacy; 11. Ethnic Rock, or, the Transcultural Logic of Hegemony: On Chinese Ethnic Rock Music (Minzu Yaogun); 12. Teaching Late Night Laughs: Saturday Night Live, Satire, and Critical Race Media Literacy; 13. Marine or Mercy: Constructing Self, RASM, Nation, and Leadership in Eurovision and French Presidential Politics; Glossary
About the author
Jayne Cubbage is Associate Professor of Communications at Bowie State University, an historically Black University in Maryland, USA, where she teaches in the Graduate Program in Organizational Communication. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Howard University and is the author of several works on media literacy in higher education. She is currently working on additional research on news literacy, media literacy, and mass communication for diverse audiences.
Summary
This volume offers deeper exploration and advancement of critical race media literacy, a concept which fuses the genres of media literacy and critical media literacy with critical race theory to bring a new and salient frame to the discussion of media literacy across all levels of education in today’s media saturated climate.
