Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media

Susan Flynn is a Lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on pedagogy, equality, diversity, inclusion, popular culture and digital technologies.Melanie A. Marotta is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University, USA. Her research focuses on Science Fiction, Young Adult, the American West, American Literature (in particular African American literature), and Ecocriticism.

• 1. Teaching Race in Film: Exploring Birth of a Nation and Django Unchained. 2. Narratives of Institutional Racism and Social Critique in Contemporary UK Television Drama. 3. Digital and Decolonial Diffractions of Race and Materiality for (Post)Pandemic Education. 4. Teaching an Inclusive English Composition Course: The Vampire Genre. 5. Refugee 2.0 - (De)constructing race, ethnicity, and identity through digital practices in refugees in camp settings and in-between places. 6. Counter-visual analysis of migrants’ self-representational strategies media: A pedagogical and psychological perspective. 7. Playing Difference: Towards a Games of Colour Pedagogy. 8. Reading and Writing to Reclaim Humanity: Centering the Ongoing History of Asian Exclusion in America in the (Digital) Age of Covid-19 . 9. Whose Bollywood is this anyway?: Exploring Critical Frameworks for Studying Popular Hindi Cinema. 10. Tribal Ways: How to Teach Indigenous Studies without Textbooks. 11. Color-Blindness and Neoliberalism in Disney’s Pocahontas. 12. Beyond the Burial Ground: Reflecting on the Indigenous Representation in 1970s and 1980s American Horror. 13. Gaming from the margins: Indigenous representation, critical gaming, and pedagogy. 14. Questioning the Drug War Frame: Teaching Mexico’s Violence through Documentary Representations of Race. 15. "Chicken Noodle Soup" with some theory on the side

"Unlike previous periods in human history, as a result of unpresented technological advances in production and distribution, information is available in abundance. But there is a big distinction between ‘information’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘learning’ and if there ever was a need for a book that enables us to navigate the expansive landscape of media, specifically in relation to questions of ‘race’ and education, then this is the one."Dr Gurnam Singh, Associate Professor of Equity, Coventry University and Visiting Fellow in Race and Education, University of the Arts, London, UK.