What kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?
Podcast: Cynthia Young, “Race and Representation after 9/11”
Cynthia Young and Anamik Saha on media representations of African American men in the “war on terror,” from criminal to patriot, at war against a new enemy.
RaceFail: Race and the Fantastic
My role in the Civic Engagement project was writing a case study about an online debacle popularly referred to as “RaceFail ’09”.
Podcast: Lisa Nakamura, “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
If virtual world users’ claims to citizenship and sovereignty within them are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of “gray collar” or semi-legal virtual laborers and their social relations and cultural identity
Comparative Media Insights: “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
If virtual world users’ claims to citizenship and sovereignty within those worlds are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of “gray collar” or semi-legal virtual laborers.
Video and podcast: “Race, Politics, and American Media”
Following Obama’s election, are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier?
Race, Politics and American Media
The election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama’s ascension transformed anything?
