Gender & Race in Media: African American

A Deeper Shade of Black: Charles Isbell put together this resource on literature, history and film, including "This Week in Black History"
African Women Journal: Articles by both African authors and Africanists on economics, politics, religion and social themes.
African Women's Media Center (AWMC): "A project of the International Women's Meddia Foundation …with a mission of strengthening the role of women in the news media worldwide, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice."
AFROAM-L Griot Online: In the Griot tradition, the people of the AFROAM-L discussion group have created a unique compilation of discussions, research and original work about African life, culture and history named it our Griot Online.
allAfrica.com: Women: A news portal that specializes in news about women in Africa.
American Studies Web: Race and Ethnicity:African American Resources: An annotated index originally from Yale University's American Studies department, now part of the American Studies Web hosted by Georgetown University.
Black Press Reference Sources: African-American Studies Bibliography by Kathleen E. Bethel, African-American Studies Librarian, Nortwestern University
Black Cultural Studies Web Site: This is an experimental Black cultural studies site set up because of a lack of resources on the internet around questions of ethnicity, race, and gender among populations of the African diaspora.
Black Film Center/Archive - Indiana University: The BFC/A is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans.
Black Independent Cinema and The Influence of Neo-realism: Futility, Struggle and Hope in the Face of Reality by Chris Norton in Images issue 5.
Blacknetart.com::Mendi+Keith Obadike: Mendi and Keith Obadike are multimedia artists who produce conceptual Internet art including such works as an Internet opera "the sour thunder" commissoned by Yale Cabaret, "the interaction of coloreds" commissioned by the Whitney Museum. See the Whitney page for a bio
Blaxplotation.com: A Soulfull Tribute to the Genre: This Site currently covers Books on the Genre as well as Lists of the Movies, their Soundtracks and Posters. Plus we have an Introduction to Black Action Movies, their Influence on Film and TV and various external Links.
The Brother Might be Made of Steel, But He Sure Ain't Super...Man: Superman, Steel and the Paradox of African-American Superheroes by Christian Davenport, writing in Other Voices the (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
Cleopatra Jones: 007: Blaxploitation, James Bond, and Reciprocal Co-optation" by Chris Norton in Images a Web site for "everyone who enjoys movies and popular culture."
Daughters of the Dust: This page is a tribute to the spirit of Women of color exemplified in the dramatic feature film Daughters of the Dust, written and directed by Julie Dash. Backround on the Gullah, history of African American cinema, Sea Island Recipies ... all kinds of stuff related to the subject of the film, the film itself and its maker.
David Walker Interview: Recently we were given the opportunity to interview David Walker, blaxploitation, historical guru and creator/editor/publisher of the groundbreaking as well as hilarious BadAzz MoFo magazine and website (www.badazzmofo.com). Both are devoted to blaxploitation and other underground cinematic gems. --MochaDreams.com
From Panther to Monster:: Black Popular Culture Representations of Resistance from the Black Power Movement of the 1960s to the Boyz in the Hood. Talk sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Dept., Bowling Green State University, Feb., 1996.
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro: A Hypermedia edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number.
Hip Hop was Influenced by Old Black Movies - JR Valery: "The Mack and Superfly put me in a state of amazement because I never really noticed how Hip Hop culture derived from the Seventies culture."
Is the Web Too Cool for Blacks?: "African-Americans aren't rushing online because the new medium butts heads with their traditional values and desires." by Leonce Gaiter, Salon Magazine.
"'NIGGER' A Case Study in Using a Racial Epithet": By Keith Woods at The Poynter Institute For Media Studies. Traces the problems journalists were struggling with when reporting former police detective Furman's remarks related to the O.J. Simpson trial.
"An Essay on a Wickedly Powerful Word": Another meditation on the word "nigger" in journalism by Keith Woods at The Poynter Institute For Media Studies.
Midnight Ramble: "Midnight Ramble concerns Black Hollywood from the period just after World War I through the 1940s. It considers everything from the low budget, independent Race movies of Oscar Micheaux to major studio productions. It's a tribute to a very misunderstood, and mysterious film genre that lasted for over forty years."
The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity: African Americans: Videotapes at U.C. Berkeley: A bibliography of videotapes at the Moffitt Library, U.C. Berkeley that also has links to associated web sites.
News Watch Project: "A project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University Journalism Department. … We're your on-line resource for bringing unbiased, fair coverage of people of color and lesbians/gays to the news."
New African Cinema: An article by Francoise Pfaff, originally published in Cineaste v22, n4 (Fall, 1996):58 (2 pages).
Once Upon a time ... When We Were Colored (20 Reviews): Movie Review Query Engine at Telerama collected this set of reviews of the film directed by Tim Reid.
Race and Media.com or try The Entman-Rojecki Index of Race and Media: This site is an online resource for those concerned with the mass media and race relations in the United States. It is specifically designed as a resource for readers of the book: The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America By Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki.
Race, Sex and Nerds: from Black Geeks to Asian Hipsters: Talk delivered at the American Studies Assn. 2000 (Detroit) by Ron Eglash, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutite. This paper examines the role of the nerd in relation to race and gender identity, and explores the ways in which attempts to circumvent its normative gate keeping function can both succeed and fail.
Technology Versus African-Americans: From the caravel to the cotton gin, technological innovation has made things worse for blacks. Will the information revolution be any different? by Anthony Walton, Atlantic Monthly, January, 1999.
The Political Economy of Black Film: Race in Contemporary American Cinema: Part 4 by Jesse Algeron Rhines first published in Cineaste v21, n3 (Summer, 1995):38
The AFRO-American Newspapers Home Page: A slick multimedia presentation of culture, information, history and a kids zone.
The Race for Cyberspace: Information Technology in the Black Diaspora: A draft of an article by Ron Eglash and Julian Bleecker scheduled to appear in Science as Culture. "Focusing on the black diaspora, we broaden the category of "information technology" to show how traditions of coding and computation from indigenous African practices and black appropriations of Euro-american technologies have supported, resisted, and fused with the cybernetic histories of the west, and provide a strong source for changes in reconstructing identity, social postition and access to power in communities of the black diaspora."
Tragically Hip: Hollywood and African-American Cinema: Race in Contemporary American Cinema, part 2 by Dennis Greene from the journal Cineaste v20, n4 (Oct, 1994):28 (2 pages)
National Association of Black Journalists: Organizational information and contact addresses for regional and student chapters.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: African American Critical Theory and Cyberculture: By Kalí Tal - "…African American critical theory provides very sophisticated tools for the analysis of cyberculture, since African American critics have been discussing the problem of multiple identities, fragmented personae, and liminality for over a hundred years."
Universal Black Pages: Newspapers, Magazines, Publishers etc.
Hitlist - Hip Hop Music and Culture