In this performance, Smith creates a representation of the activist Huey P. Newton’s life and time as a person, a citizen and an activist. During the performance, images are shown up-stage from activist movement era. The simple arrangement of Smith sitting in a chair stage-center makes ...
HUMAN sexuality in mass mediaDUNYE, Cheryl, 1966-This essay uses cultural and film studies theories to examine black sexuality in the discontinued WGN television series "Underground" and the film "The Watermelon Woman," by Cheryl Dunye. Topics covered include erotic representation in...
The foremost goal of this essay is to break with the stated supposition that Black existence is a logical extension of the substance of race. While remaining fully aware of the restrictions of race, we want to think through this study as an act of making oneself contemporaneous with the exist...
True Beauty – American Beauty and Mythological Undertones . American Beauty, the winner of five Academy Awards, examines the captivating representation of the American Dream gone askew in the complex 1990's society. American Beauty was released after the dot-com rise and fall that cr... ...
Using the special episode of the anthology series Black Mirror: Bandersnatch as an example, this essay will retrace the interrelationship of play, game, and television, as this episode offers a representation of diverse variations of play, going so far as to present its playfulness as the actual...
These efforts tend to confuse race with aesthetics, that is, with stereotypical racial styling of non-white models, and blackface is still prevalent in the most prestigious of fashionmagazines. 展开 关键词: blackface fashion industry fashion magazines fashion modelling politics of representation racial...
She’s the gold standard on how to remain exactly oneself in a world that is trying to tell you how to change. Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago Separated into five segments, this collection of ...
Free Essay: Feminism is a vast and popular subject in today’s society. Black and white women from all parts of the world write about feminism in their...
RACE relations in the United StatesHISTORYAn essay is presented on educational media and progress made in the field of educational media research with an example of William F. Buckley's television program "Firing Line". It discusses the show's contribution towards the Black Power movement and...
This essay draws on media studies methodologies to map the ways in which the Journal of Negro Education (JNE) defined juvenile delinquency both as a legal and social construct and how its contributors and approached the relationship between delinquency and schooling between 1945 and 1975. Situated ...