Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media

This volume examines the role and representation of 'race' and ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United States. It highlights contemporary work that focuses on changing meanings of racial and ethnic identity as they are represented in the media; television and film, digital and print media are under examination. Through fourteen innovative and interdisciplinary case studies written by a team of internationally based contributors, the volume identifies ways in which ethnic, racial, and national identities have been produced, reproduced, stereotyped, and contested. It showcases new emerging theoretical approaches in the field, and pays particular attention to the role of race, ethnicity, and national identity, along with communal and transnational allegiances, in the making of identities in the media. The topics of the chapters range from immigrant newspapers and gangster cinema to ethnic stand-up comedy and the use of 'race' in advertising.

Eleftheria Arapoglou is Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, USA, where she holds a joined appointment between the American Studies Program and the English department. She is the author of A Bridge over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of 'Women's Orients' and she has co-edited seven volumes in the areas of cultural studies and ethnic studies. 

Yiorgos Kalogeras is Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is  the author and editor of several books on the Greek presence in the USA. His current project is a comparative study of Greek and Italian ethnicity in film. He edits Gramma: A Journal of Theory and Criticism. 

Jopi Nyman is Professor and Head of English at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, Finland. He is the author and editor of almost twenty books including the recent co-edited collections Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration and Transculturation (2014) and Affect, Space and Animals (2016).