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 todays globalized, race-based, and media-saturated climate.
Bridging the gap in research that has not addressed the ways in which media is a conduit of racial dialogue and ideology, the book brings together a diverse group of scholars that explore their perspectives on critical race media literacy as it is experienced from the interface and consumption of a variety of media texts and social phenomena. Topics addressed include news literacy, childrens literature, Black political movements, media protests, and ethnic rockCritical Race Media Literacy addresses these topics within existing media literacy contexts to enhance media literacy scholarship and educational pedagogy.
This book will provide a timely and important resource not only for scholars and students of media literacy and media education but also for educators working in diverse learning settings.
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 todays media saturated climate.
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. Weve 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.
Medias 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 Childrens 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
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.