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Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences

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Editors:
  1. Omotayo O. Banjo

    1. College of Arts & Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

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  • One of the first volumes to concentrate on both foreign-born Americans and U.S. born children of immigrants in relation to representation in film and media

  • Examines how second-generation Americans engage with texts and media and how these interaction with their cultural identification

  • Champions the use of autoethnographic essays to contextualize the theoretical, analytical, and critical arguments throughout

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Becoming Black: An Introduction to Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences

    • Omotayo O. Banjo
    Pages 1-28

  3. Representation: Foreign Realities Onscreen

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Stages of Being Foreign as Portrayed in The Citizen and Moscow on the Hudson

      • Fran Hassencahl
      Pages 31-47

    3. First-Generation Korean American Women’s Mobility: Intersections of Ethnicity/Race, Class, and Gender

      • Heui-Yung Park
      Pages 49-65

    4. “Then We Show Ourselves”: Resisting Immigration in Party of Five Reboot

      • Rachel L. Grant, Hayley Markovich
      Pages 67-85

    5. Contested Citizenship: The Representation of Latinx Immigration Narratives in Jane the Virgin and One Day at a Time

      • Claudia A. Evans-Zepeda, Zazil Reyes García
      Pages 87-109

    6. Immigrants Make America Great: A Textual Analysis of Bob Hearts Abishola

      • Nathaniel Frederick II, Omotayo O. Banjo, Emmanuel Nwachukwu
      Pages 111-133

  4. Content Creation: Industry Concerns and Constraints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Ambivalence and Contradiction in Digital Distribution: How Corporate Branding and Marketing Dilute the Lived Experiences in Ramy

      • Peter Arne Johnson
      Pages 137-154

    3. Un Puente a la Mesa: The Role of Cultural Translators in the Production of Disney/Pixar’s Coco

      • Litzy Galarza, Paulina A. Rodríguez Burciaga
      Pages 155-182

  5. Audience Reflections and Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Yvonne Orji’s Docuseries, First Gen: First-Generational Narratives and the Impact on Audiences’ Community Cultural Wealth

      • David L. Stamps
      Pages 185-201

    3. Am I an All-American Girl? An Autocritography of Ethnicity, Gender, and Acculturation via Margaret Cho’s All-American Girl (1994–1995)

      • Charisse L’Pree Corsbie-Massay
      Pages 203-218

    4. Between a Banana and a Coconut: Reflections on Being Second-Generation American on the Periphery

      • Diane Sabenacio Nititham
      Pages 219-235

    5. Language, Telenovelas, and Citizenship: A Mexican Immigrant’s Exploration of First-Generation American Narratives in Jane The Virgin

      • Litzy Galarza
      Pages 237-269

    6. Mixing and Re-making: The Identity of Second-Generation Bangladeshis in the United States

      • Shafiqur Rahman
      Pages 271-287

    7. Strega Nona: The Spell on Identities

      • Violetta Ravagnoli
      Pages 289-306

    8. Rebuilding the American Dream

      • Precious Yamaguchi
      Pages 307-327

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 329-333
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About this book

This anthology examines how immigrants and their US-born children use media to negotiate their American identity and how audiences engage with mediated narratives about the immigrant experience (cultural adjustments, language use, and the like). Where this work diverges from other collections and monographs is the area is its intentional focus on how both first- and second-generation Americans’ complex identities and hybrid cultures interact with mediated narratives in general, alongside the extent to which these narratives reflect their experience. In a three-part structure, the collection examines representations, “zooms in” to explore the reception of these narratives through autoethnographic essays, and concludes in a section of analysis and critique of specific media. 

Reviews

“Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences addresses an important absence in the field of communication studies by exploring the complex interaction of race, immigration experience, diaspora and media. The contributions are wide-ranging in their diversity, method, and focus. Together, they point to the rich, racialized tapestry of immigrants in the United States and the ways that media matter – textual representation, audience meanings and affect, and the spaces for meaningful production.”  

--David C. Oh, Associate Professor of Communication Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey  

 “This edited book is timely and significant especially at a time when immigrants and their generations are rediscovering their cultural practices and using new media technology to express their views on global issues in the public spheres to enhance cross-cultural understanding, cultural preservation, and connection with the homeland. I recommend this edited book to scholars, students and professionals interested in communication studies, migration studies, African studies, and diaspora studies.”   

 --Ola Ogunyemi, Founder/Principal Editor of the Journal of Global Diaspora and Media 

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Arts & Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

    Omotayo O. Banjo

About the editor

Omotayo O. Banjo is Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, USA. As a researcher, she focuses on representation and audience responses to racial and cultural media. Her work has been published in several peer reviewed journals, including among them Race and Social Problems and Communication Theory. She is the editor of Media Across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Influence and, with Kesha Morant Williams, co-editor of Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, Missions, and Dilemmas.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences

  • Editors: Omotayo O. Banjo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75311-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75310-8Published: 28 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75313-9Published: 29 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75311-5Published: 27 September 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 333

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ethnography, Media Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Media and Communication, Sociology of Culture

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