Media, Myth, and Millennials

Christopher Campbell is professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.Loren Saxton Coleman is assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.

• 1. Commodifying the Resistance: Wokeness, Whiteness and the Historical Persistence of Racism2. Tweet Black-ish to Make Black Lives Matter: How the Interplay of Social Media, Traditional News and Popular Culture Set the Agenda for the Discourse on Police Brutality3. Reading Race and Religion in Aziz Ansari’s Master of None4. Quaring Queer Eye: Millennials, Moral Licensing, Cleansing and the Queer Eye Reboot5. #BaltimoreUprising: Race, Representation and Millennial Engagement in Digital Media6. The Role of Parody in Decoding Media Text: Saturday Night Live and the Immigration Narrative7. #DCNative: Examining Community Identity, Representation and Resistance in Washington, D.C.8. Calling out Racism for What It Is: Memes, BBQ Becky and the Oppositional Gaze9. Latina/o Millenials in a Post-TV Network World: Anti-Stereotypes in the Transmedia Edutainment Web TV Series East Los High10. #DontTrendOnMe: Addressing Appropriation of Native American-ness in Millennial Social Media11. (Un)covering International Secret Agents: Constituting a Post-Network Asian-American Identity through Self-Representation12. “Being Black at Southern Miss”: The Mythology of the African-American True BelieverMarcus Coleman13. Making Meaning of the Messages: Black Millennials, Film and Critical Race Media Literacy

This immensely useful volume explores how the generation that grew up with Twitter, memes, YouTube, and streaming television engages with racial and cultural politics today. As a remarkable teaching tool, it will spark essential conversations about a range of the most pressing social and political issues of our time, from the Black Lives Matter movement and gentrification to cultural appropriation and efforts to diversify media representations.