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Act 1: Defining Activism, Committing to Social Justice, and Centering Black Humanity Act 1: Defining Activism, Committing to Social Justice, and Centering Black Humanity
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Act 2: Methods for Finessing Boundaries Act 2: Methods for Finessing Boundaries
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Act 3: Affirming Blackness in Media and Academia Act 3: Affirming Blackness in Media and Academia
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6 “How Do You Shift That?” Dialoguing Social Justice, Activism, and Black Joy in Media Studies
Get accessjas l. moultrie is a storyholder, filmmaker, and doctoral candidate studying communication at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her interests include Blackness, madness, performance, memory, and creative nonfiction. While making space for her selves within the academy, she is building a literacy project for and by Black young people to amplify joy, well-being, and encourage healing.
Ralina L. Joseph is a scholar, teacher, and facilitator of race and communication. She is Presidential Term Professor of Communication; Founding Director of the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity; and Associate Dean of Equity & Justice in the Graduate School at the University of Washington. She is the author of three books on race and communication and is currently writing Interrupting Privilege: Radical Listening, Talking Race, and Fighting Racism, a book of essays based on her public scholarship.
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Published:19 September 2024
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In this chapter we lovingly center Blackness as the space from which Black media studies scholars study, create, teach, and affect media. Through the practice of radical listening, the chapter spotlights dialogues between foundational, cross-genre, and genre-defying scholars in Black media and communication: Herman Gray and Jane Rhodes; John L. Jackson, Jr., and E. Patrick Johnson; Andre Brock and Kishonna Gray; and Robin R. Means Coleman and Beretta E. Smith-Shomade. Our conversations—on defining activism, committing to social justice, engaging methods for finessing boundaries, and unsettling anti-Blackness in media and academia—begin and end with Rhodes’ guiding question, “How do you shift that?” This chapter celebrates such a shift, of Black media studies scholars embodying joyful paths for justice and knowledge. We conclude with reimagining Black media studies as refusing to define, in the words of the late filmmaker Marlon Riggs’s last documentary, what “Black is … [and] Black ain’t.”
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