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Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media

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Editors:
  1. Eleftheria Arapoglou

    1. University of California, Davis, USA

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  2. Yiorgos Kalogeras

    1. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  3. Jopi Nyman

    1. University of Eastern Finland , Joensuu, Finland

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  • Presents a critique of stereotypes as represented in dominant media
  • Based on a transnational perspective
  • Shows how racial and ethnic identities remain relevant in today’s media

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Eleftheria Arapoglou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Jopi Nyman
    Pages 1-10

  3. Many Atlantics: Exploring Transnational Flows of Ideas and Stereotypes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Red Atlantic: Travelling Debates

      • Robert Stam, Ella Shohat
      Pages 13-40

    3. Ethnic Newspaper Writers and the Transformation of US and CircumCaribbean Literature

      • John Lowe
      Pages 41-58

    4. The Publishing of Protest: Brown, Pennington, and Gilpin’s Network of Dissent

      • Michael Rodegang Drescher
      Pages 59-76

  5. Text—Media—Intermediality: Contesting Formal and Ideological Naturalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Intermedial Resignifications of Postcolonial Resistance: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Stephanie Black’s Life and Debt

      • Paola Ferrero
      Pages 133-147

    3. Disgrace-full: Adapting J. M. Coetzee’s Racial Revenge Novel for the Screen

      • Page R Laws
      Pages 149-178

  6. Domesticating Deviancy: Euro-Americans and the Social Role of Film and Television

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Ethnic Conflicts in Urban Landscape: Irish-American Representations in the Gangster Film Genre, 1990–2010

      • Małgorzata Martynuska
      Pages 181-198

    3. Everybody Loves Raymond and Sitcom’s Erasure of Difference

      • Sostene Massimo Zangari
      Pages 199-210

    4. All My Sons: The Godfather and the Cinematic Representation of the Italian-American Family

      • Alberto Lena
      Pages 211-225

  7. Identity and Status: Disentanglements of US Discourses of Color and Ethnicity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. The Sexy Aging Black Woman in US Advertisements: From Aunt Jemima to the Pro-Age Campaigns

      • Saskia Fuerst
      Pages 229-244

    3. Difference, Diversity, and the Discourse(s) of Color: Rereading Colorism in the Black Press

      • Simone Puff
      Pages 245-261
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About this book

This volume examines the role and representation of ‘race’ and ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United States. It highlights contemporary work that focuses on changing meanings of racial and ethnic identity as they are represented in the media; television and film, digital and print media are under examination. Through fourteen innovative and interdisciplinary case studies written by a team of internationally based contributors, the volume identifies ways in which ethnic, racial, and national identities have been produced, reproduced, stereotyped, and contested. It showcases new emerging theoretical approaches in the field, and pays particular attention to the role of race, ethnicity, and national identity, along with communal and transnational allegiances, in the making of identities in the media. The topics of the chapters range from immigrant newspapers and gangster cinema to ethnic stand-up comedy and the use of ‘race’ in advertising.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Davis, USA

    Eleftheria Arapoglou

  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yiorgos Kalogeras

  • University of Eastern Finland , Joensuu, Finland

    Jopi Nyman

About the editors

Eleftheria Arapoglou is Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, USA, where she holds a joined appointment between the American Studies Program and the English department. She is the author of A Bridge over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of “Women’s Orients” and she has co-edited seven volumes in the areas of cultural studies and ethnic studies. 


Yiorgos Kalogeras is Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is  the author and editor of several books on the Greek presence in the USA. His current project is a comparative study of Greek and Italian ethnicity in film. He edits Gramma: A Journal of Theory and Criticism. 


Jopi Nyman is Professor and Head of English at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, Finland. He is the author and editor of almost twenty books including the recent co-edited collections Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration andTransculturation (2014) and Affect, Space and Animals (2016). 


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