This collection brings together pedagogical memoirs on significant topics regarding teaching race in college, including student resistance, whiteness, professor identity, and curricula. Linking theory to practice, the essays create an accessible and useful way to look at teaching race for wide audiences interested in issues within higher education. Written by professors in various fields in the humanities and social sciences, the collection looks at how the integration of racial issues into the college classroom, though never straightforward, is extremely imperative, and should strive to...
This collection brings together pedagogical memoirs on significant topics regarding teaching race in college, including student resistance, whiteness,...
Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. "African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings" fills the existing void by supplying fundamental history with critical analyses of the racial politics of television, documenting the considerable effect that television has had on popular notions of black identity in America since the inception of television.
Covering a spectrum of genres--comedy, drama, talk shows, television movies, variety shows, and...
Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between represen...