Critical Race Theory and the American Media

Sarah E. Turner is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Vermont, USA.Sarah D. Nilsen is Full Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, USA.

• 1. IntroductionPART I: Defining the Debate2. “Critical Race Theory:” The Latest Front in the Defense of White Supremacy3. When Interests Don’t Converge: The Long History of Racism in HollywoodPART II: Critical Race Theory: Case Studies4. White Organizations’ Engagement with Media Coverage of Critical Race Theory5. Junk Theories: Conservative Christian Media and the Contemporary Political Attack on Critical Race Theory6. Racializing Childhood: Migrant Children, Critical Race Theory, and Agenda Setting in Public Discourse7. Digital Intersectional Resistance: Black Women’s Responses to Mass Media AttacksPART III: Critical Race Theory in/and Film and Television8. Everyday White Supremacy: A Method for Detecting Interest Convergence in Film Screenwriting9. I Would Never Make This About Race: Liberal Racism and White Nostalgia in Little Fires Everywhere10. Cowboys and Guns: Representation and a Response to Whitewashing the West in Black Western FilmPART IV: Critical Race Theory in/and Contemporary Culture11. Trolling Toni Morrison: Book Banning, Beloved, and Critical Race Theory12. My Heroes Have Always Been Outlaws: Rap, Country, and the Making of Racial Meaning13. “Not Playing the ‘White Way’? Black Athletes, Media Treatment and Racial Etiquette”Index