Racial Symbols in the Cultural Industry
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Stratification and Inequality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 355
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cultural industries are the venues for the creation, production, commercialization, and consumption of global images, discourses, and products. Cultural producers and their objects in film, television, fashion, books, music, radio, video games, digital media, and more distribute layered, complex representations into the social environment from which audiences derive meaning. Embedded in the texts, portrayals, and messages of cultural representations are racial symbols that are emblematic for communicating to audiences and conveying meaning about ideas about racial categorization, identity, representation, and inequality. This Special Issue will highlight theoretical and empirical research that advances the understanding of the presence, significance, contours, boundaries, limitations, and affordances of racial symbols in cultural industries.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Explicit or implicit racial representations of particular groups or comparisons across groups;
- Racial ideologies, values, norms, and expectations advanced through symbolic representations;
- Controlling symbols and types within characters, stories, objects, texts, or materials;
- The architects of racial symbols, such as cultural producers, casting agents, directors, writers, and other cultural workers;
- The creation and dissemination of racial symbols in digital spaces and the ways that the Internet and technology have contributed to, challenged, and complicated the use of racial symbols;
- The spread of racial symbols through memes, hashtags, gifs, algorithms, or other mechanisms;
- Intersections with categories of identity, such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality;
- The role of racial symbols in the politics of diversity, inclusivity, invisibility, hypervisibility, erasure, controversy, or resistance.
Dr. Maryann Erigha
Guest Editor
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