Critical Race Media Literacy: Themes and Strategies for Media Education

This volume offers deeper exploration and advancement of critical race media literacy, a concept which fuses the genres of media literacy and critical media literacy with critical race theory to bring a new and salient frame to the discussion of media literacy across all levels of education in today’s globalized, race-based, and media-saturated climate.

Bridging the gap in research that has not addressed the ways in which media is a conduit of racial dialogue and ideology, the book brings together a diverse group of scholars that explore their perspectives on critical race media literacy as it is experienced from the interface and consumption of a variety of media texts and social phenomena. Topics addressed include news literacy, children’s literature, Black political movements, media protests, and ethnic rock--Critical Race Media Literacy addresses these topics within existing media literacy contexts to enhance media literacy scholarship and educational pedagogy.

This book will provide a timely and important resource not only for scholars and students of media literacy and media education but also for educators working in diverse learning settings.

Jayne Cubbage is Associate Professor of Communications at Bowie State University, an historically Black University in Maryland, USA, where she teaches in the Graduate Program in Organizational Communication. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Howard University and is the author of several works on media literacy in higher education. She is currently working on additional research on news literacy, media literacy, and mass communication for diverse audiences.