Catherine Reagan Palmore-King
Richmond, VA, USA
catie-reagan_palmor1@alumni.baylor.edu
Field, P. (2023). Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules. Dey Street Books. 272 pages, Hardcover, $35.00. Continue Reading →
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RSS feed for this sectionReview of Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
Dr. Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology
Cobleskill, New York, U.S.A
MacLeoDC@cobleskill.edu
Auerbach, David B. (2023). Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities. PublicAffairs. 352 pages, $27.00 Continue Reading →
Review of A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet
Emily R. Gerace
New York University
New York, New York, USA
erg395@nyu.edu
White, E. J. (2020). A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet. Stanford University Press, 157 pages, $14.00, paperback, ISBN: 9781503604636 Continue Reading →
Cinema in Color – A Comparative Book Review of: White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights & The 100 Greatest Superhero Films and TV Shows
Christina Masuda
University of San Francisco,
San Francisco, California USA
cymasuda@dons.usfca.edu
Yih Ren
University of San Francisco,
San Francisco, California USA
yren27@dons.usfca.edu
White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights by Justine Gomer, The University of North Carolina Press, 2020, 268 pp., $22.99 (Kindle), ISBN 1469655802
The 100 Greatest Superhero Films and TV Shows by Zachary Ingle and David M. Sutera, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022, 309 pp., $42.5 (Kindle) ISBN 153811450X
Review of Northern Exposure: A Cultural History by Michael Samuel
Samuel, M. (2021). Northern Exposure: A Cultural History. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 208 pages, Hardcover, $38.00
A Note from SWPACA Executive Director, and Dialogue Founding Co-Editor
As the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association enters its 45th year, we also celebrate ten years of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, the humble beginnings of which hail from a series of conversations at conferences and the outgrowth of scholarship at annual SWPACA (then Southwest/Texas PCA) meetings. A decade in, Dialogue now includes authors and readers far beyond the boundaries of the Albuquerque conference, continuing the important work of sharing popular culture pedagogy and practice.
Please join us in congratulating Anna CohenMiller and Karina Vado on this landmark issue, as we celebrate them, the collected Dialogue authors, and the community that will continue to benefit from this important work.
Lynnea Chapman King
Founding Co-Editor
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Executive Director
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Mixedness Comes of Age: Learning from Multiracial Portrayals in Young Adult TV Series
Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
guerrero.55@osu.edu
Lisa Delacruz Combs
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
combs.235@osu.edu
Abstract
Representation in literature, popular culture, and media has been shown to influence identity development and belonging as exemplified in the enduring hashtag #RepresentationMatters. However, mixed race representation on television has received little attention in research and scholarship. Hence, this essay examines how multiracial characters are portrayed in coming of age and young adult storylines from four TV series (All American, Charmed, Trinkets, and Dear White Peoples) representing two different networks (Netflix and The CW). Through a close reading of dialogue within the context of larger story arcs, we identify and critique common tropes in order to further multiracial literacy and inform pedagogical practice in the classroom. Specifically, three analytical themes are explored: (a) the perceived promise of racial mixing toward transcending Blackness, (b) the boundaries of Blackness, and (c) the grappling with identity and what it means to claim Blackness. Our discussion illuminates the need for more deliberate considerations when constructing mixed race characters on TV so that their portrayals reach the full potential of multiracial representation. We conclude with recommendations for more critical portrayals of multiracial young people and the intentional usage of such media in pedagogical efforts within college classrooms.
Keywords: Multiracial, mixedness, young adult, TV series, coming of age, representation, portrayal, Blackness
Special Guest Issue — Unreliable Me: Constructing and Inventing the Self
Editors: Robert Vest and Roxie James
Call for Papers
Deadline March 10, 2023
General Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Rolling Deadline
Topics are particularly welcomed that address a critical scholarly examination of popular culture and pedagogy, such as: Continue Reading →
Review of Digital Madness: How Social Media is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis – and How to Restore Our Sanity by Nicholas Kardaras
Dr. Douglas MacLeod
State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology
Cobleskill, New York, U.S.A
MacLeoDC@cobleskill.edu
Kardaras, Nicholas. (2022). Digital Madness: How Social Media is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis-and How to Restore Our Sanity. St. Martin’s Press. 273 pages, $23.99
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