How do media ‘make’ race? How do legacies of empire shape our understandings of race and media? How does racism structure the media industries? Is the internet an inherently white space?
Understanding the relationship between race, culture and media has never been more important. From the demonisation of Muslims to rampant new forms of racism on digital platforms, media are central to understanding how race is both constructed and experienced in everyday life.
Yet media are key to resisting racism, too. While they can silence and stereotype us, they can also enable us to cut across difference, to contest and mobilise, and to create genuine community.
Race, Culture and Media is a critical, impassioned and accessible exploration of this complex relationship. Anamik Saha outlines the theories, concepts and research you need to know in order to make sense of race, culture and media today – challenging you to move beyond simplistic notions of ‘diversity’ to really engage with issues of both power and participation.
It is essential reading for students and researchers across media, communication and cultural studies.
Dr Anamik Saha is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he convenes the MA Race, Media and Social Justice.
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Introduction: Race, Culture and Media
Chapter 2. Race in Media Studies
Chapter 3. Media and the Postcolonial
Chapter 4. Race, capitalism and media
Chapter 5. Nationalism, multiculturalism and media
Chapter 6. Race and media power
Chapter 7. Media, migration and racism
Chapter 8. Islamophobia and Media
Chapter 9. The production and circulation of blackness in media
Chapter 10. Digital race/racism
Chapter 11. Conclusion
About the author
Anamik Saha is a Professor in Race and Media in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. His research is on issues of race, culture and media, with a particular focus on creative and cultural industries and issues of ‘diversity’. He is the author of Race and the Cultural Industries (Polity, 2018), and Race, Culture and Media (first edition, Sage, 2021) and co-author of The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto with Francesca Sobande and Gavan Titley (Polity, 2024). He is the co-author of the AHRC-funded industry report Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing with Sandra van Lente (Goldsmiths Press, 2020), which led to his inclusion in the The Bookseller’s 2020 list of most influential people in the book trade. His research has featured across a range of media, including BBC Radio, The Guardian, TES and The New Statesman. He is an editor of European Journal of Cultural Studies.
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