ABSTRACT

This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and contributions of people of the African diaspora, the interconnections of Black American and African-centered media, and the experiences of audiences and users across the African diaspora, positioning members of the Black and African Diaspora as subjects of their own narratives, active participants and creators. In so doing, this volume addresses issues of identity, culture, audiences, and global influence.

Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|44 pages

Contributions to Mainstream Media Culture

chapter 1|11 pages

The Early Black Press in Canada

chapter 2|17 pages

Increase Your Faith

The Domestication of Black Televangelism

chapter 3|14 pages

Wrestling with Races

When Sitcoms, Families, and Political Struggles Meet

part II|33 pages

Owning Images and Narratives

chapter 4|18 pages

“(Re) defining Images of African Women”

A Postfeminist Critique of the Ghanaian YouTube Series “An African City”

chapter 5|13 pages

Walking through Wakanda

A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Afrofuturism in the Black Panther Comic Book

part III|39 pages

Bridges Across the African Diaspora

chapter 7|24 pages

NollywoodUSA

Opportunities and Challenges in Forging a Pan-African Storytelling and Identity

part IV|65 pages

Audiences’ Responses and Effects

part V|61 pages

Digital Diaspora

chapter 13|27 pages

‘Prime Time’ Geographies

Dancehall Performance, Visual Communication, and the Philosophy of ‘Boundarylessness’