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Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press

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Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press

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Framing Dissent

Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press

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Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press book

Framing Dissent
BySarah J. Jackson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 20 June 2014
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315887043
Pages 218
eBook ISBN 9781315887043
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Jackson, S.J. (2014). Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press: Framing Dissent (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315887043

ABSTRACT

Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and their reception in the public sphere. This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have covered cases of controversial political dissent by African American celebrities from Paul Robeson to Kanye West. Jackson considers the following questions: 1) What unique agency is available to celebrities with racialized identities to present critiques of American culture? 2) How have journalists in both the mainstream and black press limited or facilitated this agency through framing? What does this say about the varying role of journalism in American racial politics? 3) How have framing trends regarding these figures shifted from the mid-twentieth century to the twenty-first century? Through a series of case studies that also includes Eartha Kitt, Sister Souljah, and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Jackson illustrates the shifting public narratives and historical moments that both limit and enable African American celebrities in the wake of making public politicized statements that critique the accepted racial, economic, and military systems in the United States.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|25 pages

Paul Robeson at Peekskill, NY, 1949

chapter 2|22 pages

Eartha Kitt, the White House, and Vietnam, 1968

chapter 3|24 pages

Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Mexico City Olympics, 1968

chapter 4|25 pages

Sister Souljah, Rodney King, and the Future President, 1992

chapter 5|24 pages

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” 1996

chapter 6|25 pages

Kanye West and Hurricane Katrina, 2005

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