Mediated Messages and African-American Culture

Introduction - Venise T Berry Racialism and the Media PART ONE: ISSUES IN FILM Cultural Engineering and the Films of Spike Lee - William A Harris Intimations of Invisibility - Ruth Elizabeth Burks Black Women in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema The New Ghetto Aesthetic - Jacquie Jones PART TWO: ISSUES IN PRINT If It Weren't for Bad Luck - Oscar H Gandy Jr Framing Stories of Racially Comparative Risk How Four Newspapers Covered the 1992 Los Angeles `Riots' - Jyotika Ramaprasad Entering the Twenty-First Century - Reginald Owens Oppression and the African-American Press Carol Moseley-Braun - Carmen L Manning-Miller Black Women's Political Images in the Media PART THREE: ISSUES IN TELEVISION/CABLE Television, Black Americans, and the American Dream - Herman Gray Sex on the Soaps - Sharon Bramlett-Solomon and Tricia M Farwell An Analysis of Black, White, and Interracial Couple Intimacy Broadcast TV News Coverage of the O J Simpson Murder Case - Eddith A Dashiell Racist or Starstruck? Advertising Discourse and the Marketing of I'll Fly Away - Karen M Smith Black Entertainment Television - Alice A Tait and John T Barber Breaking New Ground and Accepting New Responsibilities? PART FOUR: ISSUES IN RADIO/MUSIC Empowering Voices - Sharon Albert-Honore KUCB and Black Liberation Radio `Pride and Profit' in Black Radio Promotions - Phylis Johnson and Thomas A Birk Celebrating Family Days and Business Partnerships Music in African-American Culture - Portia K Maultsby Rap Music, Black Men, and the Police - Venise T Berry and Harold Looney Jr