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Roundtable on The Carmichael Show

September 21, 2015
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Roundtable on <i>The Carmichael Show</i>

A roundtable discussion on The Carmichael Show by Phillip Cunningham, Alfred Martin, and Khadijah Costley White.
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AnTENNA, UnREAL: Channel Branding and Racial Politics

August 21, 2015
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AnTENNA, <i>UnREAL</i>: Channel Branding and Racial Politics

The final part of a week-long forum for media scholars to share their thoughts about Lifetime's UnREAL explores the series in relation to cable branding and racial politics.
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The Road Western: The Mad Max Series and its Latest Installment, Fury Road

June 19, 2015
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The Road Western: The <i>Mad Max</i> Series and its Latest Installment, <i>Fury Road</i>

The Mad Max series continues to be a cult classic, in part because it re-appropriates the western and the road movie and redeploys them to create an environmentally catastrophic vision of a future that we could create.
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Selma, “Bloody Sunday,” and the Most Important TV Newsfilm of the 20th Century

March 10, 2015
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Selma, “Bloody Sunday,” and the Most Important TV Newsfilm of the 20th Century

The most consequential TV newsfilm of the 20th century records the beating of voting rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. It led directly to the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act. With the 50th anniversary commemorations of “Bloody Sunday,” network and cable news channels...
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Say My Name: Unnamed Black Objects in This Year’s “Quality” Films

December 20, 2013
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Say My Name: Unnamed Black Objects in This Year’s “Quality” Films

This year has been heralded as a renaissance for films featuring black actors and actresses. Many of these black actors and actresses have performed in “quality” films like 42, The Butler, and 12 Years A Slave. As an arbiter of their “quality” these films have already begun racking up award nominations, and in some...
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Shame On(line) You: Social Activism, Racist Tweets, and Public Shaming

August 1, 2013
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Shame On(line) You: Social Activism, Racist Tweets, and Public Shaming

To examine the dialogue that results from the Public Shaming tumblr, I focus on responses to racist tweets in the aftermath of the Asiana Airline accident.
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“Uhhh…”: Negotiating Tina Belcher’s Sexuality

August 29, 2012
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“Uhhh…”: Negotiating Tina Belcher’s Sexuality

Bob's Burgers' Tina Belcher is arguably the program's breakout character and has the potential to be one of American broadcast television's most subversive girl characters.
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Mediating the Past: History and Ancestry in NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?

Mediating the Past: History and Ancestry in NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?

Some of the most compelling episodes of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? are those where relatively little information about a celebrity’s ancestors can be found.
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor

July 1, 2012
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor

Studying representation was my way into media studies. But laborers aren't working from a script and we can't always visualize the lived realities of their work.
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FOX Formula 3.0?: TBS, Cougar Town, and the Disappearing Televisual Black Body

June 18, 2012
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FOX Formula 3.0?: TBS, Cougar Town, and the Disappearing Televisual Black Body

TBS’ agreement to air new episodes of Cougar Town may signal the next network to employ the "Fox Formula" whereby market share is built courting black viewership, only to be discarded once a critical mass of mainstream viewership is attained.
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Key and Peele: Identity, Shockingly Translated

February 7, 2012
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Key and Peele: Identity, Shockingly Translated

Is Key and Peele tentatively picking up the mantel of satiric sketch comedy that Chappelle abandoned? Why now?
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Sherlock and the representation of Chineseness

October 28, 2011
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Sherlock and the representation of Chineseness

In a text so concerned with updating the Victorian source material to the contemporary period, there is very little else to the representation of Chineseness; it seems that Sherlock Holmes can use SMS messaging and GPS tracking, but Chinese culture is rendered remarkably narrow via such reductive stereotypes.
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Nativist Stylebook Dictates News Writing

October 7, 2011
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Nativist Stylebook Dictates News Writing

New immigration laws in Alabama are forcing schools to report the immigrant status of children and making unenforceable most contracts between citizens and undocumented immigrants and impacting Latina/o populations in the process. In this context, we must move away from the "i" word--illegal--when discussing undocumented workers and citizens.
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The Distribution of Sympathy and the Death Penalty

October 2, 2011
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The Distribution of Sympathy and the Death Penalty

On September 21, both Troy Davis and Russell Brewer were executed in Texas. Despite differences, the two cases both demonstrate inequalities in the way individuals are able to appear as victims (or perpetrators) within legal procedure and decisions.
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