Black Issues Forum 2003
Topic: Images Portrayed in the Media
Selected Resources - A Place To Begin Your Research:
Sage | Databases | Associations & Organizations | Web Sites
Presentation Format
Sage
(Sage is the Online Catalog)
| Suggested Subject Headings: | Suggested Keywords: |
| African Americans | Black |
| African Americans - - Race identity | African American |
| Mass Media | Positive/Negative Representation* (Representation, Representations) |
| Blacks - - United States | Image* (image, images) |
| African Americans - - race identity | Media |
| African Americans in mass media | Media bias |
| African Americans in advertising | Mass media |
| African Americans in the newspaper industry | |
| African Americans in popular culture | Hint: Keywords can be combined with 'and' 'or' '*'. |
| African Americans in radio broadcasting | |
| African Americans in television broadcasting | |
| African Americans in the performing arts | |
| African Americans in motion pictures |
Selected Books in SAGE
- Encyclopedia of Television edited by Horace Newcomb PN1992.18 .E5 1997 v.1, v. 2, v.3 (Located at the Reference Desk)
- History of the mass media in the United States : an encyclopedia edited by Margaret A. Blanchard P92.U5 H54 1998 (Located at the Reference Desk)
- Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia edited by Darlene Clark Hine E185.86 .B542 1993 v. 1, v. 2 (Located at the Reference Desk)
- Why Americans hate welfare : race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy by Martin Gilens. P96.P842 U654 1999
- Racialized coverage of Congress : the news in black and white by Jeremy Zilber and David Niven. E185.615 .Z55 2000
- Race, media, and the crisis of civil society : from Watts to Rodney King by Ronald N. Jacobs. P94.5.A372 U557 2000
- Framing Blackness : the African American image in film by Ed Guerrero PN1995.9.N4 G84 1993
- What it is -- what it was! : the Black film explosion of the '70s in words and pictures by Gerald Martinez, Diana Martinez, Andres Chavez. PN1995.9.N4 M32 1998
- Black Hollywood : from 1970 to today by Gary Null. PN1995.9.N4 N79 1993
- Race in the news by Ian Law. P94.5.M55 L38 2002
- The white press and Black America by Carolyn Martindale. PN4882.5 .M38 1986
- From Sambo to Superspade : the Black experience in motion pictures by Daniel J. Leab. PN 1995.9 N4L4
Databases
Suggested Databases:
- Academic Search Premier
- Academic Universe
- Ethnic News Watch
- Alternative Press Index
- Social Sciences Index
- JSTOR
| Database Subject Headings to Search: | Database Keywords to Search |
| AFRO-Americans & mass media | Black |
| AFRO-Americans -- Ethnic identity | African American |
| AFRO-Americans in mass media | Positive/Negative Representation* |
| AFRO-Americans -- Social life & customs | Image* (image, images) |
| Media | |
| Media bias | |
| Mass media | |
| Hint: Keywords can be combined with 'and' 'or' '*'. |
Associations & Organizations
- Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
- Association of Black Anthropologists
- National Association of Black Journalists - NABJ website with job listings, general resources, press releases and organizational information.
- Black American Cinema Society
- Black Awareness in Television
- National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Web Sites
- African American Resources
Listing of African American newspapers. - Library of Congress: African-American History and Culture
An illustrated guide of manuscripts acquired by the Library of Congress on African American history and culture - Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
A research library page on The New York Public Library's site. - World-Wide Black Radio Stations
A collective guide to radio stations around the world with radio formats catering to the Black, Urban, African American markets and fans. - Fertile Field: The Legacy of Racism in American Media
An article by Alia Plasencia, 23 / Austin, TX - Media Blackface: "Racial Profiling" in News Reporting
An article on racial profiling in mainstream media. - Fair's Racism Watch Desk
The Racism Watch Desk monitors and combats the media's marginalization, misrepresentation and exclusion of people of color--both in the news and in the newsroom. The web site contains several articles relating to images in the media. - African American Publications
As a service primarily to the African American community, links are provided to a multitude of off site pages. - African American Media
- Black Entertainment Television (BET)
The official Web site for BET. - Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
A selected guide to African American arts & entertainment resources on the Internet. - Racial identity may frame view of media
An article on racial identity and media from University Relations, the public relations office for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus. - Panel Examines African Americans in the Media
Journalists meet at Kennedy School to discuss the media's images and coverage of African Americans. - African American World . Race & Society . Debate PBS
Black America Today debate on media stereotypes. - Black Youth and Mass Media (pdf article)
Article by S. Craig Watkins, Associate Professor of Sociology and Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin. - The Chronicle - Media Racism
Internet site with information about the challenges of Black personalities and Media Coalition Groups. - Mass Media and Racism
An article by by Stephen Balkaran for Yale Political Quarterly. - The Media
This page is for discussing negative and positive portrayal of blacks in the media: movies, books, television shows, CDs and articles. - Portrayal of blacks in entertainment questioned
A commentary by Davie E. Williams. A THING OF THE PAST? Minstrel shows of the 19th century portrayed blacks as singing and dancing buffoons. Jim Crow was a popular character of the time, developed by Thomas Dartmouth Rice. - Recognizing Information Bias (PowerPoint)
A PowerPoint presentation. - TOMPAINE.com - Media Misrepresentations: Is there a solution?
An article by Martin Gilens who is an associate professor of political science at Yale University, where he is a fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. - Communications Minorities in Media - A Selective Guide to Library Resources
A selective guide to resources for the F. D. Bluford Library at North Carolina A&T State University. Contains titles for Encyclopedias, Handbooks and Dictionaries.
Search Engines and Directories for the Web
- Black Web Portal
- Ruzivo (Metasearch Black-Oriented Web sites)
- Yahoo
Content: Catherine Cranston, Patrick McCarthy, Sarah Myers