COMM384

This course inspects the socio-historical patterns, challenges, and achievements that interact with media representations of Black communities in the USA and globally. Media representations of Black people throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States will be examined with an eye to their local and global impact relative to media production, media entrepreneurship, news media, and entertainment. Traditional and new media will be assessed for the range of representations that they lend to capturing and complicating the lived experiences of Black people globally. The representational diversity intersections of class, gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, and politics will be examined to illuminate global black communities’ efforts to reclaim, transform, and project their depictions in local and global mass media.