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The Discourse of Black Fragility in a Divided Public Sphere

open access: yesJAm It!, 2022
The expression of fragility has always been a difficult and complex matter for African Americans, for the discourse of mainstream media is set up to sustain their fragility while at the same time misrecognizing it.
Meili Steele
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Whither Shall We Go? The Past and Present of Black Churches and the Public Sphere [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2015
In this paper, I analyze the contemporary role of the Black Church in the public sphere. Some argue that despite the historical role of the Black Church in addressing racial inequality, it should not be involved in the public sphere, as there should be a
Kendra H. Barber
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Preventing AIDS, producing mothers: a sociological reading of HIV/AIDS posters aimed at women in the 1980s and 1990s [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Public Health
This article offers a sociological analysis of the representational frameworks constructed around women in HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns published in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. We argue that the recurring use of the category of ‘mother’
João Paulo Gugliotti   +1 more
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Out or In? The Black Blogosphere and the News Media

open access: yesGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2016
Alternatives to the dominant public sphere and associated dialogue are especially important for underrepresented groups. These alternatives allow for groups to create their own dialogues that can then be used to change the direction of the larger ...
Cara Robinson, Nia Cantey
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Opposing A Spectacle of Blackness: Arap Baci, Baci Kalfa, Dadi, and the Invention of African Presence in Turkey

open access: yesLateral, 2021
The imaging of Africans in Turkey is indicative of the extant register of cultural understanding in the Turkish popular imagination regarding the imaginability, knowability, and understandability of Black form represented. In Turkish popular culture, the
Bam Willoughby
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Música Popular Black and anti-racist struggles: musical cosmopolitanism and the soul aesthetic in Brazil (1963-1978)

open access: yesBrasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2022
This essay reassesses the political significance of the creative impulses, performance aesthetics and artistic work that became identified collectively as música popular black, and their contribution to the anti-racist cause in Brazil during the 1964-85 ...
David Treece
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Domestic violence through the window of the COVID-19 lockdown: a public crisis embodied/exposed in the private/domestic sphere

open access: yesJournal of Global Faultlines, 2020
COVID-19 has been recognized globally as a public health crisis, which has directly led to the deaths of more than 40,000 people in the UK (World Health Organization, 2020).
Jane Krishnadas, Sophia Hayat Taha
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The Power of Neoliberalism: Transformation, Neo-Elitism and Class Continuities in the Post-Apartheid Media

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2022
Critical political economy of the media investigates how changes in the array of forces that exercise control of media institutions liberate or limit the public sphere.
Prinola Govenden
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Gambe nude su pubblica "Piazzetta"? Intorno a un caso di censura mancata della tv delle origini (1956)

open access: yesSchermi, 2021
The article deals with one of the first “scandals” connected to the sexual sphere on Italian television, just out of its experimental period: the apparent nude (actually a pink leotard, hidden by the stage lights and the black and white) of dancer Alba ...
Luca Barra
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Black Lives Matter and the Removal of Racist Statues

open access: yes21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2020
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have been accompanied by calls for the removal of statues of racists from public space.
Caesar Alimsinya Atuire
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