Robin R Means Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 195369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin R Means Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin R Means |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN R R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The One Who Did Not Die”
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Assessing Programmatic Mentoring
This essay is not about getting good mentoring. Rather, it is about the ways in which institutions must invest in providing resources for professional success and wellness, with a particular understanding of the needs of women of color. To ensure faculty retention and success, institutions must not only provide resources but also engage in exacting assessment practices to ensure programmatic efficacy
Fix It Black Jesus
Good Times is primarily remembered for the situation comedy that it became, rather than how the series began. As a part of what Means Coleman classifies as "The Lear Era: Social Relevancy and Ridiculed Black Subjectivity," the series was the first sitcom in TV history to feature a loving, working-class, Black nuclear family-the Evanses-with a focus on recounting their racial and socioeconomic challenges and gains. While the representational treat…
You might not know her, but you know her brother
In this article, we consider the power of the “Internet of things” and that of respectability policing. Our concern is the role of digital technologies in social stratification and neighborhood management. We begin by examining the use of ShotSpotter technology that provides audio detection of gunfire in (Black) neighborhoods and transmits the location of shots fired to police. We explore how ShotSpotter was used to investigate the murder of Jane…
No Way of Seeing
This essay examines the attempt to market to a mainstream audience a gay, Black rapper—Caushun—who embodies competing claims of “thug” masculinity and “queen” femininity. We argue that Caushun might experience failure because his music, and more importantly his music videos, will offer his target audience “no way of seeing” authenticity in his intersecting identities. That is the viewing experience, theorized as the gaze (Mulvey, 1975 Mulvey, L.,…
The Gentrification of "Black" in Black Popular Communication in the New Millennium
This issue of Popular Communication features two particularly interesting pieces of scholarship whose salience should be noted in that the authors work expressly to extend our ideational boundaries regarding racial identity-in these two instances, the categories of Blackness and Whiteness. The authors share a common goal, though one taken with great care: to disrupt plebeian notions of what is thought to be essentialized Black cultural forms (e.g…
Elmo Is Black! Black Popular Communication and the Marking and Marketing of Black Identity
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60136/1/Elmo.pdf
Bringing Diversity and Activism to Media Education through African American-Centered Pedagogical Cases
This article works to illustrate the manner in which two principal goals of media education can be fulfilled in media instruction. These goals are to create savvy media consumers who are empowered to demystify their mediated worlds and to foster recognition in media consumers that they possess agency to inform their mediated worlds. Toward these ends, the author provides media educators with two case studies—the mediation of Ebonics and the NAACP…
Mediating Ebonics
No Way of Seeing
This essay examines the attempt to market to a mainstream audience a gay, Black rapper—Caushun—who embodies competing claims of “thug” masculinity and “queen” femininity. We argue that Caushun might experience failure because his music, and more importantly his music videos, will offer his target audience “no way of seeing” authenticity in his intersecting identities. That is the viewing experience, theorized as the gaze (Mulvey, 1975 Mulvey, L.,…
The Gentrification of "Black" in Black Popular Communication in the New Millennium
This issue of Popular Communication features two particularly interesting pieces of scholarship whose salience should be noted in that the authors work expressly to extend our ideational boundaries regarding racial identity-in these two instances, the categories of Blackness and Whiteness. The authors share a common goal, though one taken with great care: to disrupt plebeian notions of what is thought to be essentialized Black cultural forms (e.g…
Elmo Is Black! Black Popular Communication and the Marking and Marketing of Black Identity
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60136/1/Elmo.pdf
Bringing Diversity and Activism to Media Education through African American-Centered Pedagogical Cases
This article works to illustrate the manner in which two principal goals of media education can be fulfilled in media instruction. These goals are to create savvy media consumers who are empowered to demystify their mediated worlds and to foster recognition in media consumers that they possess agency to inform their mediated worlds. Toward these ends, the author provides media educators with two case studies—the mediation of Ebonics and the NAACP…
Mediating Ebonics
Elmo Is Black! Black Popular Communication and the Marking and Marketing of Black Identity
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60136/1/Elmo.pdf
Bringing Diversity and Activism to Media Education through African American-Centered Pedagogical Cases
This article works to illustrate the manner in which two principal goals of media education can be fulfilled in media instruction. These goals are to create savvy media consumers who are empowered to demystify their mediated worlds and to foster recognition in media consumers that they possess agency to inform their mediated worlds. Toward these ends, the author provides media educators with two case studies—the mediation of Ebonics and the NAACP…
The Gentrification of "Black" in Black Popular Communication in the New Millennium
This issue of Popular Communication features two particularly interesting pieces of scholarship whose salience should be noted in that the authors work expressly to extend our ideational boundaries regarding racial identity-in these two instances, the categories of Blackness and Whiteness. The authors share a common goal, though one taken with great care: to disrupt plebeian notions of what is thought to be essentialized Black cultural forms (e.g…
No Way of Seeing
This essay examines the attempt to market to a mainstream audience a gay, Black rapper—Caushun—who embodies competing claims of “thug” masculinity and “queen” femininity. We argue that Caushun might experience failure because his music, and more importantly his music videos, will offer his target audience “no way of seeing” authenticity in his intersecting identities. That is the viewing experience, theorized as the gaze (Mulvey, 1975 Mulvey, L.,…
You might not know her, but you know her brother
In this article, we consider the power of the “Internet of things” and that of respectability policing. Our concern is the role of digital technologies in social stratification and neighborhood management. We begin by examining the use of ShotSpotter technology that provides audio detection of gunfire in (Black) neighborhoods and transmits the location of shots fired to police. We explore how ShotSpotter was used to investigate the murder of Jane…
Fix It Black Jesus
Good Times is primarily remembered for the situation comedy that it became, rather than how the series began. As a part of what Means Coleman classifies as "The Lear Era: Social Relevancy and Ridiculed Black Subjectivity," the series was the first sitcom in TV history to feature a loving, working-class, Black nuclear family-the Evanses-with a focus on recounting their racial and socioeconomic challenges and gains. While the representational treat…
Assessing Programmatic Mentoring
This essay is not about getting good mentoring. Rather, it is about the ways in which institutions must invest in providing resources for professional success and wellness, with a particular understanding of the needs of women of color. To ensure faculty retention and success, institutions must not only provide resources but also engage in exacting assessment practices to ensure programmatic efficacy
“The One Who Did Not Die”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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