The race and media reader

Introduction : Teaching/learning about race

Section I. Concepts and definitions : Statement on “race” / American Anthropological Association

Racial formation / Michael Omi and Howard Winant

Defining racism: "Can we talk?" / Beverly Daniel Tatum

White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh

The whites of their eyes: racist ideologies and the media / Stuart Hall

Section II. Realities and representations : No golden age: television news and the Chicano civil rights movement / Randy Ontiveros

Lean on me: beyond identity politics / George Lipsitz

Representing whiteness in the Black imagination / bell hooks

The forgotten fifteen million: Black radio, radicalism, and the construction of the "Negro market" / Kathy N. Newman

White responses: the emergence of "enlightened" racism / Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis

"Fear of a black planet": rap music and Black cultural politics in the 1990s / Tricia Rose

Section III. Authenticities and appropriations : Copyright, authorship and African-American culture / Kembrew McLeod

My black death / Arthur Jafa

Race and other four letter words: Eminem and the cultural politics of authenticity / Gilbert B. Rodman

Mind yourself: on soundwalking, race, and gender / Karen Shimakawa

Imagining Indians: negotiating identity in a media world / S. Elizabeth Bird

"Do we look like Ferengi capitalists to you?": Star trek's Klingons as emergent virtual American ethnics / Peter A. Chvany

Section IV. Technologies and institutions : The light of the world / Richard Dyer

Jazz tradition, institutional formation, and cultural practice / Herman S. Gray

Phantom calls: race and the globalization of the NBA [selections] / Grant Farred

Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch / Dwight A. McBride

Unnatural disasters: race and poverty / Michael Eric Dyson

The Hip Hop hearings: the hidden history of deindustrialization / George Lipsitz

Criminalizing Black culture / Carol A. Stabile

Section V. Identities and globalizations : Old and new identities, old and new ethnicities / Stuart Hall

The typhoid Marys of the left: gender, race, and the broadcast blacklist / Carol A. Stabile

The distribution of distress / Patrica Williams

How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa:

Taxi cab politics and the production of Brown space after 9/11 / Sarah Sharma

How Tiger Woods lost his stripes: post-nationalist American studies as a history of race, migration, and the commodification of culture / Henry Yu

Passing for White, passing for Black / Adrian Piper

Section VI. Futures and solutions? : Racial realism after we're gone: prudent speculations on America in a post-racial epoch / Derrick Bell

The face of America and the state of emergency / Lauren Berlant

Burying Don Imus / Mchael Akward

Inside Inside man: Spike Lee and post-9/11 entertainment / Lori Harrison-Kahan

Dispatches from the twenty-first century color line / Catherine Squires.