Content tagged "race"
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Coco Fusco: “A Performance Approach to Primate Politics”
New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates nominated for National Magazine Award for essay “Fear of a Black President”
Awards to be presented on Thursday, May 2, at the New York Marriott Marquis.
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Podcast, Craig Watkins: “Exploring the Digital Practices of Black and Latino Youth”
Craig Watkins studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Podcast: Otto Santa Anna, “Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos: Successes, Failures, and a Range of Proposals to Correct Its Limitations”
Otto Santa Anna presents findings from his forthcoming book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
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Race and Representation after 9/11
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?
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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.
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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”.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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?
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Color (or the Lack of It) at Comic-Con…and Beyond
“When it comes to race, all is not well in Comic-land and in the entertainment world it inspires.”
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The Chosen Genes: Jews, Genetics, and the Future of Ethnic Medicine
Today’s Ashkenazi Jews are appealing research subjects because they are both genetically interesting and culturally willing.
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Event offers diverse statements about race and digital media
The innovative event was a “huge success,” said Henry Jenkins, professor of literature and director of CMS.
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Race in Digital Space
Cyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet our everyday encounters with race have consequences–both “inside and outside the box.”
