African American Communication & Culture Division

Gods, God, and Soul Food: Young Black Spirituality and Rap Music

Author:Chris Harris (University of Miami) Click here to read the abstract.

Marginalized and sexualized: A content analysis of black characters in top-grossing films from 1990 to 2006

Authors: Stacy Smith (University of Southern California) and Carmen Lee (San Diego State Univ) Click here to read the abstract.

My Woman She Don't Treat Me Right: Black Feminism Standpoints and the Gendering of Infrapolitics in American Blues Music

Author:Roger Gatchet (University of Texas, Austin) Click here to read the abstract.

Nostalgia and Liberalism in the Black Public Sphere: Jackie Robinson and the Crisis of the Black Athlete

Author:Abraham Khan (Villanova University) Click here to read the abstract.