Race, gender, media: considering diversity across audiences, content, and producers

1. Laying a foundation for studying race, gender, and the media

pt. I. Audiences

2. Considerations of media effects

2.1. The social psychology of stereotypes : implications for media audiences / Bradley W. Gorham

2.2. All I really needed to know (about beauty) I learned by kindergarten : a cultivation analysis / Susannah R. Stern

2.3. Global media/local meanings / Larry Nathan Strelitz

2.4. Body image, mass media, self-concept / Michelle A. Wolf, Sandy Nichols, Dave Decelle

3. Audience reception, use, and interpretation of media content

3.1. "Why don't you act your color?" : preteen girls, identity, and popular music / Pamela J. Tracy

3.2. Consuming ethnic media, constructing ethnic identities, shaping communities : a case study of Greek Cypriots in London / Myria Georgiou

3.3. "Women who look like me" : cultural identity and reader responses to African American romance novels / Gwendolyn E. Osborne

3.4. Arguing over images : Native American mascots and race / C. Richard King

3.5. The relevance of race in interpreting a TV news story / Rebecca Ann Lind

3.6. Crossing the lines of gender and color : viewers respond to Fires in the mirror / Rob Baum

3.7. Bamboozled? : audience reactions to a Spike Lee film / Dwight E. Brooks, George L. Daniels.

pt. II. Content

4. General considerations and overviews of media content

4.1. "The more you subtract, the more you add" : cutting girls down to size in advertising / Jean Kilbourne

4.2. Favoritism and identity in the mediation of sports / Susan Tyler Eastman

4.3. Interpreting media representation at the intersections of white and Christian supremacy / Jaideep Singh

4.4. Fears of difference and miscegenation : pro-segregation arguments from the 1950s to today / Thomas A. Moriarty

5. Journalistic issues : news, public affairs, sports content

5.1. Racialized portrayals of reporters and criminals on local television news / Travis L. Dixon

5.2. The face of the front page : a content analysis of U.S. newspapers / Cynthia M. Lont, M. Junior Bridge

5.3. "Outwhiting the whites" : an examination of the persistence of Asian American model minority discourse / Chiung Hwang Chen

5.4. Race, gender, and the O.J. Simpson case : how the media "framed" O.J. / Tom Grochowski

5.5. Framing feminism / Rebecca Ann Lind, Colleen Salo

5.6. Gender and sport media : sexual difference and SI for kids / Marie Hardin ... [et al.]

6. Film

6.1. Race, hierarchy, and hyenaphobia in The lion king / Naomi R. Rockler

6.2. Destructive and constructive characterizations of women in Disney's Mulan / Katherine E. Bartnett

6.3. Savages, swine, and buffoons : Hollywood stereotypes of the Japanese, Germans, and Italians during World War II / Ralph R. Donald

6.4. Hip-hop sees no color : an exploration of privilege and power in Save the last dance / Leslie A. Grinner

7. Entertainment television

7.1. Color TV? : diversity in prime-time TV / Joan L. Conners

7.2. Talking about racism on the Oprah Winfrey show / Janice Peck

7.3. Masculinity and race in media : the case of the homicide detective / Erin MacDonald

8. Music

8.1. Eminem in mainstream public discourse : whiteness and the appropriation of Black masculinity / Jon B. Martin, Gust A. Yep

8.2. From "rico suave" to "livin' la vida loca" : a decade of evolution for Latino pop star images / Fernando Delgado, Bernadette Marie Calafell

8.3. "Music to riot by" : calls to racial violence in the Oi! music scene / Jody M. Roy

9. New media

9.1. Pixel pinups : images of women in video games / Nina B. Huntemann

9.2. Cyber-hate and the disinhibiting effects of anti-gay speech on the Internet / Cynthia A. Cooper

10. Representations of male-female relationships

10.1. Relationship self-help books, social expectations, and feminism / Felicia J. Slattery

10.2. Pornography in a pornographic culture : eroticizing domination and subordination / Robert Jensen, Gail Dines.

pt. III. Production

11. Producing documentary and entertainment programming

11.1. "Who is the market for this film?" : the politics of distributing Mixing Nia / Ralina Landwehr Joseph

11.2. Barricaded intersections : Any day now and the struggle to examine ethnicity and gender / Amanda D. Lotz

11.3. Locating butch in Out of bounds : female football players, expressions of masculinity, and participatory cinema / Cynthia Conti

11.4. The Tom Joyner morning show : activist urban radio in the age of consolidation / George L. Daniels, Dwight E. Brooks

12. Blurring the lines : the audience as producer

12.1. "Are you a 'real' female?" : gender and authenticity in Asheron's call / Nora Madison Thompson, Jonathan T. Church

12.2. Performing masculinity, revisioning sexuality : adult Internet video sites / Marjorie Kibby, Brigid Costello

13. Employment issues : working in and for the media

13.1. The changing status of women in television and radio news / Vernon A. Stone

13.2. Women in British broadcasting : an examination of perceived opportunities and constraints / Rebecca Ann Lind

13.3. The wedding march : from elite to egalitarian / Tina Lesher

14. Epilogue : concluding thoughts and additional resources.