<i>Push</i>ing into<i>Precious</i>: Black Women, Media Representation, and the Glare of the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchal Gaze

Griffin, Rachel Alicia

doi:10.1080/15295036.2013.849354

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Feel-good story framing in terms of thriving despite racist structures “relieves White audiences of guilt and accountability,” serves to make race and gender “hypervisible and yet largely unseen, and justifies social institutions rooted in white supremacist capitalist partriarchy” (Griffin, 2014, p. 190). Overall then, feel-good narratives told from a hegemonic perspective tend to make people in the dominant societal positions perceive that hard work and talent alone will overcome any barrier .…”

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“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

Bien-Aimé

2024

Journal of Black Studies

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When analyzing the composition of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, one can see the paucity of women and especially Black women in these areas. Generally when depicting people who excelled despite encountering substantial obstacles, news reports tend to celebrate the person’s success while often ignoring the structural reasons for the existing discrimination. Thus, this study analyzed media coverage of the 2020 death of legendary NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson to explore whether journalists emphasize race and sex as novelties compared to a person’s overall accomplishments, and whether journalists explored the structures underpinning the racism and sexism Johnson faced. In both standard news articles and opinion pieces, the theme of trailblazer or pioneer consistently appeared. Journalists took care to both highlight Johnson’s novelty as a woman in STEM, but also her significant contributions to the space program as a whole, which transcended her racial and gender identities. Additionally, fewer than half of the news items that contained direct quotations actually quoted women who were NOT Katherine Johnson. Many of the news items that quoted women contained comments from author Margot Lee Shetterly, whose book served as the basis for the movie Hidden Figures. News items also routinely treated the racial and gender discrimination Johnson faced as part of the past and not as a current issue. Racism and sexism existed, but there was not much explanation as to why it existed in its particular format, who benefited from the discriminatory apparatuses and who implemented and maintained those systems.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

Bien-Aimé

2024

Journal of Black Studies

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“…Black characters are still often given secondary roles with few speaking lines (Cocca, 2016; Mafe, 2018). Black women are often given roles that emphasize their sexuality or place them in subordinate positions (Griffin, 2014; Moffitt, 2019). Black fathers and father figures are often portrayed as perpetrators of violence (Perry & Johnson, 2017).…”

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Development of the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model

Wilkins‐Clark,

Gray,

Ferraro

2024

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Family stress models have been used extensively in family science for decades and have demonstrated utility in the examination of familial responses to stressors. Although these models have been applied to research on Black families and researchers have more recently considered the impact of integrated sociocultural context and reconceptualized models accordingly, current models do not fully explain outcomes associated with mundane extreme environmental stress (MEES) and the simultaneous influence of an iterative meaning‐making process. To address this gap, we extend the contextual model of family stress, by integrating the MEES concept and propositions from symbolic interactionism, family systems theory, and ecological theory. We introduce the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model (RED‐SM), a conceptual framework, to explain how the mundane extreme environment, resources, and socialization messages contribute to a meaning‐making process that influences adjustment outcomes for Black individuals. We conclude by offering suggestions for its usage in family science research.

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“…However, "revolutionary" media premised on increased racial representation also requires a critical eye. As such, we adopt Griffin's (2014) invitation "to grapple intentionally with the paradoxical politics of media representation." Some critics note the appearance of a revolutionary ethos within Black Panther is undercut by the situatedness of this film within capitalism, as well as some plot points.…”

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Black Panther and the Alt-right: networks of racial ideology

Varda

2020

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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This essay analyzes how far-right paratexts enunciate and circulate frameworks of interpretation that situate the film, Black Panther, as a Trumpian homage. Such rubrics travel through an interconnected media ecosystem and use the film to promote the views of the far-right, adoration for Donald Trump, and a postracial, neoliberal worldview. Analysis of these paratexts demonstrates how white supremacy relies on a wealth of circulated logics that can be deployed thru novel texts and considers the implications of contemporary media environments for ideological formations.

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Pushing intoPrecious: Black Women, Media Representation, and the Glare of the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchal Gaze

Cited by 27 publications

References 18 publications

“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

Development of the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model

Black Panther and the Alt-right: networks of racial ideology

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