Media messages: what film, television, and popular music teach us about race, class, gender and sexual orientation

Abstract

1. The Connections: Life, Knowledge, and Media Personal Experience Reconstructing Knowledge The Process of Socialization Entertainment Media Chapter Summary Glossary of Key Terms Reflection, Summary, and Analysis Bibliography 2. Gender: In Pink and Blue and Vivid Color Personal Experience and Gender Reconstructing Knowledge and Gender Gender and Entertainment Media The Complexity of Gender Targeting Gender Diversity and Social Power Chapter Summary Glossary of Key Terms Reflection, Summary, and Analysis Bibliography 3. Is the United States a Classless Society? Personal Experience and Class Reconstructing Knowledge and Class Early U.S. History The Twentieth Century The Twenty-First Century Entertainment Media and Class Chapter Summary Glossary of Key Terms Reflection, Summary, and Analysis Bibliography 4. Racing in America: Fact or Fiction? Linda's Story Leon's Story Meeting at the Crossroads: How Our Stories Converge The American Racial Discourse: Then and Now Reconstructing Knowledge and Race Stories of Race, Racism, and Resistance in the United States Chapter Summary Glossary of Key Terms Reflection, Summary, and Analysis Bibliography 5. Stories of Race in Popular Culture Entertainment Media and Race American Indians in Entertainment Media Asians and Pacific Islanders in Entertainment Media Latinas/Latinos in Entertainment Media African Americans in Entertainment Media Chapter Summary Glossary of Key Terms Bibliography 6. Sexual Orientation and the Fabrication of Normal Personal Experience Reconstructing Knowledge and Sexual Orientation Terminology and Its Evolution Theories and History of Sexual Orientation in the United States Sexual Orientation in U.S. History Religion and Sexual Orientation Summary of Reconstructing Knowledge Sexual Orientation and Entertainment Media Chapter Summary Glossary of Key Terms Reflection, Summary, and Analysis Bibliography