A special issue of Poroi with selected papers presented at the symposium “Sexing the Colorlines,” which took place on November 16, 2009 at the University of Iowa.
Author: Wendy Robertson
“Mediated constructions and lived experiences of place,” Robert Edward Gutsche Jr.
This dissertation advances previous research on the journalistic interpretive community by placing news at the center of a community’s construction of place. By focusing on the construction of Iowa City, Iowa’s “Southeast Side” – neighborhoods home to predominantly newly arrived black residents from Chicago and other urban areas – this study identifies dominant news characterizations […]
“Crossover narratives,” Eric David Johnson
Eric David Johnson’s 2012 dissertation examines the idea of “authenticity” in various kinds of musical genres. He looks to the years between 1935 and 1965 and jazz, Afro-Carribbean musical forms, and blues revivalism to gain an understanding of how the stories we tell ourselves socially and culturally about what is and is not real African American music get told.
“The hip-hopsploitation film cycle,” Aaron Dickinson Sachs
Aaron Dickinson Sachs’s 2009 dissertation looks at mid-1980s hip-hop and its entrance into the landscape of national popular culture and the complications of appropriation and representation.
