Media Across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Influence

Contents

• Foreword (Catherine Squires)
• Introduction (Omotayo O. Banjo)
• Part I : Contributions to Mainstream Media Culture
• 1. The Early Black Press in Canada (Tokunbo Ojo)
• 2. Increase Your Faith: The Mainstreaming of Black Televangelism (Mark Ward)
• 3. Wrestling with Races: When Sitcoms, Families, and Political Struggles Meet (Judy Iskasen)
• Part II : Owning Images and Narratives
• 4. (Re) defining Images of African women": A Post-Feminist Critique of the Ghanaian YouTube series "An African City" (Godfried Asante and Rita Daniels)
• 5. Walking through Wakanda: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Black Superhero Comic Books (Christopher Brown, Brandon McCasland, Kathryn Paris, and Sachi Sekimoto)
• Part III : Bridges Across the African Diaspora
• 6. Stereotyped representations of African cultural values in Black media: A critical analysis (Marquita Marie Gammage and Justin T. Gammage) 7 . Nollywood USA: Opportunities and Challenges in Forging a New Pan African Storytelling and Identity (Adedayo A
• Part IV : Audiences' Responses and Effects
• 8. Exploring African Female Immigrants' Perceptions of their Portrayal in the U.S. Media (Gloria Pindi)
• 9. Hardly Ever...I Don't See It: Black Youth Speak about Positive Media Images of Black Men (Valerie N. Adams-Bass and Erin Joann Henrici)
• 10. For Us only? Examining the Effect of Viewing Context on Black Audiences' Perceived Influence of Black Entertainment (Omotayo O. Banjo)
• Part V : Digital Diaspora
• 11. Social Media and social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States (Jeffrey Blevins)
• 12. Science and Identity Construction among Black transnational Virtual Communities (Gado Alzouma)
• 13. "Prime Time" Geographies: Dancehall Performance, Visual Communication and the Philosophy of Boundarylessness (Sonjah Stanley Niahh)