Teaching about Inequality with Jersey Shore: The Psychology of Race and Gender in Popular Culture

Drawing on disability studies, media studies, and the sociology of sport, Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin argue that the case of runner Oscar Pistorius's killing of Reeva Steenkamp reveals the range, depth, and complexity of the cultural meanings of disability in contemporary society. Examining press accounts, legal arguments, and popular responses to the killing, they situate discourses of disability within multiple contexts, including the global sports industry and the dynamics of race and gender in a transforming South Africa. The "Pistorius affair," they suggest, makes visible the normally submerged roles that disability plays within popular culture, with implications for the ways that bodies, identities, and indeed life itself are understood.

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Girlhood Unscripted: A Homeless Black Girl’s Video Narratives and the New Terrain of Representation

Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies ◽

10.1177/1532708616674991 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 406-414

Author(s):

Olga Ivashkevich

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Middle Class ◽

Homeless Families ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Daily Experiences ◽

White Middle Class ◽

Girlhood Studies ◽

And Gender

The article examines impromptu video narratives produced by a Black 9-year-old girl Kiara during the video-making sessions at the shelter for homeless families in Columbia, South Carolina. I argue that these video narratives create a new discourse of girlhood that ruptures existing media, popular culture, and other societal scripts about girlhood and disenfranchised communities—a discourse of girlhood unscripted—which brings into play the complex intersections of class, ethnicity, race, and gender and produces a new realm of representation. Drawing on her daily experiences of poverty, hunger, violence, incarceration, and racism, Kiara’s narratives also pose a challenge to the field of girlhood studies which continues to focus on White, middle-class femininity thereby creating a scholarly trap of representation.

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The Gendered Muslim Subject

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190845995.013.14 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 341-366

Author(s):

Mariam Durrani

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

News Media ◽

Political Discourse ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Linguistic Anthropology ◽

Feminist Critique ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Media Reports ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender

Through feminist critique, this chapter attends to how gender and race are co-constitutive of the production and circulation of anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia in three forms of U.S. public discourse: news media reports, political discourse, and popular culture. Discourse about the gendered Muslim body sustains the contemporary racialization of Muslims, playing a key role in the race- and gender-based discrimination and assault experienced by Muslim and Muslim-appearing/sounding individuals. Drawing on linguistic anthropology and critical Muslim studies, the chapter enlivens the scholarship on discursive mediatized formulations of the racialized Muslim figure by highlighting its gendered formulations.

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Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000114 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 113-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Michael S. Rodi ◽

Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽

Christine Walrath ◽

Robert L. Stephens ◽

D. Susanne Condron ◽

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Keyword(s):

Suicide Prevention ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Service Access ◽

Referral Patterns ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Lee Smith ◽

Prevention Behavior ◽

Key Variables ◽

And Gender ◽

To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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