ABSTRACT

Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media investigates how popular media offers the potential to radicalise what and how we teach for inclusivity. Bringing together established scholars in the areas of race and pedagogy, this collection offers a unique approach to critical pedagogy by analysing current and historical iterations of race onscreen.

The book forms theoretical and methodological bridges between the disciplinary fields of pedagogy, equality studies, and screen studies to explore how we might engage in and critique screen culture for teaching about race. It employs Critical Race Theory and paradigmatic frameworks to address some of the social crises in Higher Education classrooms, forging new understandings of how notions of race are buttressed by popular media. The chapters draw on popular media as a tool to explore the social, economic, and cultural dimensions of racial injustice and are grouped by Black studies, migration studies, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, and Asian studies. Each chapter addresses diversity and the necessity for teaching to include visual media which is reflective of a myriad of students’ experiences.

Offering opportunities for using popular media to teach for inclusion in Higher Education, this critical and timely book will be highly relevant for academics, scholars, and students across interdisciplinary fields such as pedagogy, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, and equality studies.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Critical pedagogy, race, and media

chapter Chapter 1|15 pages

Teaching race in film

Exploring Birth of a Nation (1915) and Django Unchained (2012)

chapter Chapter 4|12 pages

Teaching an inclusive English composition course

The vampire genre

chapter Chapter 5|22 pages

Refugee 2.0

(De)constructing race, ethnicity, and identity through digital practices in refugees in camp settings and in-between places

chapter Chapter 6|20 pages

Counter-visual analysis of migrants' self-representational strategies

A pedagogical and psychological perspective

chapter Chapter 7|18 pages

Playing difference

Towards a games of colour pedagogy

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

Reading and writing to reclaim humanity

Centring the ongoing history of Asian exclusion in America in the (digital) age of COVID-19

chapter Chapter 9|14 pages

Whose Bollywood is this anyway?

Exploring critical frameworks for studying popular Hindi cinema

chapter Chapter 10|13 pages

Tribal ways

How to teach Indigenous studies without textbooks

chapter Chapter 12|13 pages

Beyond the burial ground

Reflecting on Indigenous representation in 1970s and 1980s American horror

chapter Chapter 13|16 pages

Gaming from the margins

Indigenous representation, critical gaming, and pedagogy

chapter Chapter 14|14 pages

Questioning the drug war frame

Teaching Mexico's violence through documentary representations of race