Melissa A Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 119897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa A Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa A |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9278-5639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reflections on researching the Caribbean and Black Canadian history. An interview with Michele Johnson
Dominion over Palm and Pine: A History of Canadian Aspirations in the British Caribbean . Paula Hastings
Acculturation, pluralism, empowerment: Cultural images as strategic communication on Hispanic nonprofit websites
This quantitative visual content analysis investigated the use of acculturation, pluralism, empowerment, and resistance-themed messages and images in nonprofit strategic communication and digital intercultural communication. The study analyzed data from 135 U.S.-based Latino nonprofit websites. Based on study findings, the authors argue that these nonprofits may be missing opportunities to strengthen relationships and cultural ties with target pu…
Dreamers” or threat: Bilingual frame building of Daca immigrants
This research analyzes Spanish- and English-language news discourses in the United States following the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It identifies how sources quoted by journalists affected framing of stories in five ethnic and general market newspapers. Coverage of Dreamers and DACA was generally positive, especially compared to common representations of undocumented immigrants as criminals and as a …
Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize
Visual Expressions of Black Identity: African American and African Museum Websites
This qualitative and quantitative content analysis examines 46 African and African American museum websites. Merelman’s cultural projection concept serves as a foundation to explain the societal importance of Black cultural expression. The analysis reviews how the African- and African American-centric organizations communicate Black and organizational identities on their digital platforms. Described are images, sound, and visual dynamism. The fin…
Mi have to work: La domesticité des « enfants » en Jamaïque, 1920-1970
Parmi les dizaines de milliers de travailleurs ayant intégré le secteur de l'emploi domestique au XXe siècle en Jamaïque se trouvaient de jeunes personnes, dont la plupart étaient des jeunes filles, et quelques-unes encore des « enfants ». Tandis que certaines étaient recrutées en tant que servantes rémunérées, d'autres étaient placées (parfois sous la forme « d'adoptions » informelles) dans des maisonnées où elles effectuaient des tâches domesti…
Communicating visual identities on ethnic museum websites
This article combines qualitative and quantitative content analysis to explore the websites of 43 ethnic museums in the United States. The use of multiple modes of communication to represent ethnic identity and cultural heritage is detailed. Also delineated is how websites present relationships with the ethnic diaspora, the homeland, the museums’ local communities, and the US community
"They Do As They Please": The Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay
“Primary sources on English Jamaica in the seventeenth century are extremely rare, especially ones reproduced in print. The University of the West Indies Press has performed a significant service in making public one of the most important sources for early Jamaican history – John Taylor’s manuscript describing his travels to and residency in Jamaica from 1686 to 1688. . . . Taylor wrote for his fellow Englishmen back home, and his inter This book…
Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research
The growth of ethnic media is a bright trend in the U.S. media market, and media for various cultural groups are expanding in Europe and elsewhere. However, despite increased scholarly attention to ethnic media, ethnic media theoretical concept development has not kept pace. This article has three purposes. It differentiates ethnic media from other media forms and defines related concepts, organizes and models contemporary ethnic media literature…
Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Problematic Bodies”: Negotiations and Terminations in Domestic Service in Jamaica, 1920-1970
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Igniting the Caribbean's Past: Fire in British West Indian History
According to Richardson, this work focuses on the people of the British colonies in the Lesser Antilles between 1885 and 1910 and their “interrelationships with fire . . . as it was used, categorized, contemplated, contested, and feared . . . in both rural and urban areas” (p. 3). Although fire was not “the overriding causal agent or single variable that best explains the human geography” of the region in that period, he argues that it can be use…
Christine Acham — Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Presenting Pictures
Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British cultural imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920 /Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson.
This superbly written book examines the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. It offers an analysis of the cultural tapestry fashioned by the Jamaican people and the specific methods used by British imperial legislators and the cultural elite in the attempt to inculcate order and control and to build a new society in Jamaica founded on the principles of Victorian Christian morality and Briti…
The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras
Walker Evans
Walker Evans, Maria Morris Hambourg. Jeff L. Rosenheim. Douglas Eklund. Mia Fineman. Princeton, NJ; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in association with Princeton University Press, 2000. 332 pages, 365 illustrations including 141 duotone and 53 color, selected bibliography (pages 310-311), index (pages 312-318). Cloth, $65.00, Paper, $45.00
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. Anne Sutherland. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. + 202 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations
Pre‐television stereotypes: Mexicans in U.S. newsreels, 1919–1932
This study explored images of Mexicans and dominant symbols in early U.S. newsreels, whether they changed throughout the 1920s, and whether they reflected the era's film stereotypes. Dominant images were dignitaries, doers, beauties, bystanders, and clerics. Symbols of modernity and class outweighed traditional images. Negative symbols like dirt or weapons were not prevalent. After 1924, symbols of literacy, diplomacy, and construction were more …
Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry
Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry. MARK MOBERG. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xxxvi. 218 pp., appendix, notes, references, index
The Role of Self in Third-Person Effects About Body Image
This study examines the perceived effect of idealized media images on self and classmates for three levels of outcome undesirability: perception of ideal body weight, effect on self-esteem, and likelihood of developing an eating disorder. A significant third-person effect was observed, which widened as the outcome increased in social undesirability. Those with high self-esteem exhibited stronger third-person effect than those with low self-esteem…
Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research
The growth of ethnic media is a bright trend in the U.S. media market, and media for various cultural groups are expanding in Europe and elsewhere. However, despite increased scholarly attention to ethnic media, ethnic media theoretical concept development has not kept pace. This article has three purposes. It differentiates ethnic media from other media forms and defines related concepts, organizes and models contemporary ethnic media literature…
Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US-Mexico Borderlands
The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras
Pre‐television stereotypes: Mexicans in U.S. newsreels, 1919–1932
This study explored images of Mexicans and dominant symbols in early U.S. newsreels, whether they changed throughout the 1920s, and whether they reflected the era's film stereotypes. Dominant images were dignitaries, doers, beauties, bystanders, and clerics. Symbols of modernity and class outweighed traditional images. Negative symbols like dirt or weapons were not prevalent. After 1924, symbols of literacy, diplomacy, and construction were more …
Dreamers” or threat: Bilingual frame building of Daca immigrants
This research analyzes Spanish- and English-language news discourses in the United States following the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It identifies how sources quoted by journalists affected framing of stories in five ethnic and general market newspapers. Coverage of Dreamers and DACA was generally positive, especially compared to common representations of undocumented immigrants as criminals and as a …
Communicating visual identities on ethnic museum websites
This article combines qualitative and quantitative content analysis to explore the websites of 43 ethnic museums in the United States. The use of multiple modes of communication to represent ethnic identity and cultural heritage is detailed. Also delineated is how websites present relationships with the ethnic diaspora, the homeland, the museums’ local communities, and the US community
Mi have to work: La domesticité des « enfants » en Jamaïque, 1920-1970
Parmi les dizaines de milliers de travailleurs ayant intégré le secteur de l'emploi domestique au XXe siècle en Jamaïque se trouvaient de jeunes personnes, dont la plupart étaient des jeunes filles, et quelques-unes encore des « enfants ». Tandis que certaines étaient recrutées en tant que servantes rémunérées, d'autres étaient placées (parfois sous la forme « d'adoptions » informelles) dans des maisonnées où elles effectuaient des tâches domesti…
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. Anne Sutherland. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. + 202 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations
The Role of Self in Third-Person Effects About Body Image
This study examines the perceived effect of idealized media images on self and classmates for three levels of outcome undesirability: perception of ideal body weight, effect on self-esteem, and likelihood of developing an eating disorder. A significant third-person effect was observed, which widened as the outcome increased in social undesirability. Those with high self-esteem exhibited stronger third-person effect than those with low self-esteem…
Pre‐television stereotypes: Mexicans in U.S. newsreels, 1919–1932
This study explored images of Mexicans and dominant symbols in early U.S. newsreels, whether they changed throughout the 1920s, and whether they reflected the era's film stereotypes. Dominant images were dignitaries, doers, beauties, bystanders, and clerics. Symbols of modernity and class outweighed traditional images. Negative symbols like dirt or weapons were not prevalent. After 1924, symbols of literacy, diplomacy, and construction were more …
Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry
Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry. MARK MOBERG. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xxxvi. 218 pp., appendix, notes, references, index
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. Anne Sutherland. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. + 202 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations
Walker Evans
Walker Evans, Maria Morris Hambourg. Jeff L. Rosenheim. Douglas Eklund. Mia Fineman. Princeton, NJ; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in association with Princeton University Press, 2000. 332 pages, 365 illustrations including 141 duotone and 53 color, selected bibliography (pages 310-311), index (pages 312-318). Cloth, $65.00, Paper, $45.00
The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras
Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British cultural imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920 /Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson.
This superbly written book examines the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. It offers an analysis of the cultural tapestry fashioned by the Jamaican people and the specific methods used by British imperial legislators and the cultural elite in the attempt to inculcate order and control and to build a new society in Jamaica founded on the principles of Victorian Christian morality and Briti…
Christine Acham — Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Presenting Pictures
Problematic Bodies”: Negotiations and Terminations in Domestic Service in Jamaica, 1920-1970
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Igniting the Caribbean's Past: Fire in British West Indian History
According to Richardson, this work focuses on the people of the British colonies in the Lesser Antilles between 1885 and 1910 and their “interrelationships with fire . . . as it was used, categorized, contemplated, contested, and feared . . . in both rural and urban areas” (p. 3). Although fire was not “the overriding causal agent or single variable that best explains the human geography” of the region in that period, he argues that it can be use…
Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research
The growth of ethnic media is a bright trend in the U.S. media market, and media for various cultural groups are expanding in Europe and elsewhere. However, despite increased scholarly attention to ethnic media, ethnic media theoretical concept development has not kept pace. This article has three purposes. It differentiates ethnic media from other media forms and defines related concepts, organizes and models contemporary ethnic media literature…
"They Do As They Please": The Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay
“Primary sources on English Jamaica in the seventeenth century are extremely rare, especially ones reproduced in print. The University of the West Indies Press has performed a significant service in making public one of the most important sources for early Jamaican history – John Taylor’s manuscript describing his travels to and residency in Jamaica from 1686 to 1688. . . . Taylor wrote for his fellow Englishmen back home, and his inter This book…
Communicating visual identities on ethnic museum websites
This article combines qualitative and quantitative content analysis to explore the websites of 43 ethnic museums in the United States. The use of multiple modes of communication to represent ethnic identity and cultural heritage is detailed. Also delineated is how websites present relationships with the ethnic diaspora, the homeland, the museums’ local communities, and the US community
Visual Expressions of Black Identity: African American and African Museum Websites
This qualitative and quantitative content analysis examines 46 African and African American museum websites. Merelman’s cultural projection concept serves as a foundation to explain the societal importance of Black cultural expression. The analysis reviews how the African- and African American-centric organizations communicate Black and organizational identities on their digital platforms. Described are images, sound, and visual dynamism. The fin…
Mi have to work: La domesticité des « enfants » en Jamaïque, 1920-1970
Parmi les dizaines de milliers de travailleurs ayant intégré le secteur de l'emploi domestique au XXe siècle en Jamaïque se trouvaient de jeunes personnes, dont la plupart étaient des jeunes filles, et quelques-unes encore des « enfants ». Tandis que certaines étaient recrutées en tant que servantes rémunérées, d'autres étaient placées (parfois sous la forme « d'adoptions » informelles) dans des maisonnées où elles effectuaient des tâches domesti…
Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize
Acculturation, pluralism, empowerment: Cultural images as strategic communication on Hispanic nonprofit websites
This quantitative visual content analysis investigated the use of acculturation, pluralism, empowerment, and resistance-themed messages and images in nonprofit strategic communication and digital intercultural communication. The study analyzed data from 135 U.S.-based Latino nonprofit websites. Based on study findings, the authors argue that these nonprofits may be missing opportunities to strengthen relationships and cultural ties with target pu…
Dreamers” or threat: Bilingual frame building of Daca immigrants
This research analyzes Spanish- and English-language news discourses in the United States following the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It identifies how sources quoted by journalists affected framing of stories in five ethnic and general market newspapers. Coverage of Dreamers and DACA was generally positive, especially compared to common representations of undocumented immigrants as criminals and as a …
Dominion over Palm and Pine: A History of Canadian Aspirations in the British Caribbean . Paula Hastings
Reflections on researching the Caribbean and Black Canadian history. An interview with Michele Johnson
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (6 works)