Murali Balaji
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Murali Balaji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Murali |
| FAMILY NAME | Balaji |
| SIGNATURE | BALAJI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lincoln University - Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Republicans Listen to Rap, Too: Tupac’s Engagement with Black Conservatism
In the 25-plus years since his death, Tupac Shakur’s legacy has been reimagined as one of a fighter of social injustice and revolutionary whose discography ushered in an era of more “conscious” rap. The consensus scholarly and popular re-imagining of Shakur’s legacy as that of a progressive social justice advocate in the nearly 30 years since his death downplays or altogether overlooks his occasional alignment with conservative ideas. But this re…
Glocal riddim: Cultural production and territorial identity in Caribbean music videos
Over the past two decades, several musical genres have transcended their Caribbean origins to achieve global recognition and success. Among these are soca, dancehall and reggaeton, all forms that had been inextricably tied to native cultural expressions, but have become increasingly popular as global commodities, particularly as web-based streaming platforms (e.g. YouTube) enhance their global audiovisual mobility. Numerous artists within these g…
Beyond Curry and Caliphs: How Advocacy in Education Has Shaped Hindu‐Muslim Relations in the United States
Border Citizenry and the Arbitrary Civil Protection of Black Males
The words 'police brutality' when paired together ought to sound like an oxymoron. Yet we have learned that marginalized group members have somehow not earned the same protection under the law as others. Although the law is the site at which ordinary citizens depend on jurisprudence, fairness, and integrity in the United States, the failure of the state apparatus to ensure such protection has facilitated the production of border communities. By '…
Global Masculinities and Manhood
Bringing together an array of interdisciplinary voices, this book examines the concept of masculinity from the perspectives of cultures around the world. The chapters deconstruct the history and politics of masculinities within the contexts of the cultures from which they have been developed, examining what makes a man who he is within his own culture. Highlighting manifestations of masculinity in countries including Jamaica, Turkey, Peru, Kenya,…
Blowing up the brand: Critical perspectives on promotional culture
In the decade since Naomi Klein's groundbreaking No Logo, media scholars have tried to add to a continuum of scholarship on branding. However, notions of branding had, for the most part, focused on how corporations used branding as a means of cultivating consumption and building identities in global consumption markets. Branding, at least in media scholarship, has been inextricably tied to the increased studies of globalization and its impact. Mu…
Vixen Resistin’: Redefining Black Womanhood in Hip-Hop Music Videos
In recent years, scholarship on Black womanhood has become more closely connected to postmodern discourses on identity and resistance, following in the footsteps of Audre Lorde’s claim that identity and sexuality have emancipatory potential. However, in the post-hip-hop era, feminists and media critics have once again brought up the idea of who controls the image. The purpose of this study is to describe possible sites of self-definition by Black…
The New Suzie Wong: Normative Assumptions of White Male and Asian Female Relationships
This study critically examines explicit and implied romantic relationships between Asian females and White males in television advertisements, using several examples to illustrate the historical and contextual impact of these images. This interracial relationship, popularized in the 1960 film The World of Suzie Wong, depicts the subservient Asian female prostitute having a romantic relationship with the White male. The Asian female being subservi…
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (review)
Owning Black Masculinity: The Intersection of Cultural Commodification and Self-Construction in Rap Music Videos
In his 2006 documentary Hip Hop: Beyond the Beats and Rhymes, Byron Hurt asserts that Black masculine identity exists "in a box," framed in the mass media in such a way that limits alternative discourses on Black masculinity while reinforcing White ideological stereotypes of Black men. Hurt's claim underscores the tension that exists between Black male identity and its mediated construction, particularly in film and television (Bogle, 1989; Colli…
Have You Got Game?’ Hegemonic Masculinity and Neo-Homophobia in U.S. Newspaper Sports Columns
In February 2007, U.S. media outlets covered the coming out of retired NBA player John Amaechi, one of only 6 professional male athletes from the four major U.S. team sports to have announced that he is gay. This study analyzes newspaper columns by prominent U.S. sportswriters about Amaechi's announcement. Textual analysis found that although the columns could be read as progressive, they were not; they condemned individuals who expressed overtly…
Why Do Good Girls Have to Be Bad? The Cultural Industry's Production of the Other and the Complexities of Agency
The political economy of popular culture often overlooks the ideologies that determine how identities are commodified. The commodification of what is reductively known as black music is unique because the commodification routinely intersects with historical constructions of blackness and black gender identities. Therefore, any analysis of the relationships between black musical artists and the cultural industries and the subsequent production of …
Have You Got Game?’ Hegemonic Masculinity and Neo-Homophobia in U.S. Newspaper Sports Columns
In February 2007, U.S. media outlets covered the coming out of retired NBA player John Amaechi, one of only 6 professional male athletes from the four major U.S. team sports to have announced that he is gay. This study analyzes newspaper columns by prominent U.S. sportswriters about Amaechi's announcement. Textual analysis found that although the columns could be read as progressive, they were not; they condemned individuals who expressed overtly…
Owning Black Masculinity: The Intersection of Cultural Commodification and Self-Construction in Rap Music Videos
In his 2006 documentary Hip Hop: Beyond the Beats and Rhymes, Byron Hurt asserts that Black masculine identity exists "in a box," framed in the mass media in such a way that limits alternative discourses on Black masculinity while reinforcing White ideological stereotypes of Black men. Hurt's claim underscores the tension that exists between Black male identity and its mediated construction, particularly in film and television (Bogle, 1989; Colli…
Why Do Good Girls Have to Be Bad? The Cultural Industry's Production of the Other and the Complexities of Agency
The political economy of popular culture often overlooks the ideologies that determine how identities are commodified. The commodification of what is reductively known as black music is unique because the commodification routinely intersects with historical constructions of blackness and black gender identities. Therefore, any analysis of the relationships between black musical artists and the cultural industries and the subsequent production of …
Beyond Curry and Caliphs: How Advocacy in Education Has Shaped Hindu‐Muslim Relations in the United States
Border Citizenry and the Arbitrary Civil Protection of Black Males
The words 'police brutality' when paired together ought to sound like an oxymoron. Yet we have learned that marginalized group members have somehow not earned the same protection under the law as others. Although the law is the site at which ordinary citizens depend on jurisprudence, fairness, and integrity in the United States, the failure of the state apparatus to ensure such protection has facilitated the production of border communities. By '…
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (review)
Owning Black Masculinity: The Intersection of Cultural Commodification and Self-Construction in Rap Music Videos
In his 2006 documentary Hip Hop: Beyond the Beats and Rhymes, Byron Hurt asserts that Black masculine identity exists "in a box," framed in the mass media in such a way that limits alternative discourses on Black masculinity while reinforcing White ideological stereotypes of Black men. Hurt's claim underscores the tension that exists between Black male identity and its mediated construction, particularly in film and television (Bogle, 1989; Colli…
Have You Got Game?’ Hegemonic Masculinity and Neo-Homophobia in U.S. Newspaper Sports Columns
In February 2007, U.S. media outlets covered the coming out of retired NBA player John Amaechi, one of only 6 professional male athletes from the four major U.S. team sports to have announced that he is gay. This study analyzes newspaper columns by prominent U.S. sportswriters about Amaechi's announcement. Textual analysis found that although the columns could be read as progressive, they were not; they condemned individuals who expressed overtly…
Why Do Good Girls Have to Be Bad? The Cultural Industry's Production of the Other and the Complexities of Agency
The political economy of popular culture often overlooks the ideologies that determine how identities are commodified. The commodification of what is reductively known as black music is unique because the commodification routinely intersects with historical constructions of blackness and black gender identities. Therefore, any analysis of the relationships between black musical artists and the cultural industries and the subsequent production of …
Vixen Resistin’: Redefining Black Womanhood in Hip-Hop Music Videos
In recent years, scholarship on Black womanhood has become more closely connected to postmodern discourses on identity and resistance, following in the footsteps of Audre Lorde’s claim that identity and sexuality have emancipatory potential. However, in the post-hip-hop era, feminists and media critics have once again brought up the idea of who controls the image. The purpose of this study is to describe possible sites of self-definition by Black…
The New Suzie Wong: Normative Assumptions of White Male and Asian Female Relationships
This study critically examines explicit and implied romantic relationships between Asian females and White males in television advertisements, using several examples to illustrate the historical and contextual impact of these images. This interracial relationship, popularized in the 1960 film The World of Suzie Wong, depicts the subservient Asian female prostitute having a romantic relationship with the White male. The Asian female being subservi…
Global Masculinities and Manhood
Bringing together an array of interdisciplinary voices, this book examines the concept of masculinity from the perspectives of cultures around the world. The chapters deconstruct the history and politics of masculinities within the contexts of the cultures from which they have been developed, examining what makes a man who he is within his own culture. Highlighting manifestations of masculinity in countries including Jamaica, Turkey, Peru, Kenya,…
Blowing up the brand: Critical perspectives on promotional culture
In the decade since Naomi Klein's groundbreaking No Logo, media scholars have tried to add to a continuum of scholarship on branding. However, notions of branding had, for the most part, focused on how corporations used branding as a means of cultivating consumption and building identities in global consumption markets. Branding, at least in media scholarship, has been inextricably tied to the increased studies of globalization and its impact. Mu…
Border Citizenry and the Arbitrary Civil Protection of Black Males
The words 'police brutality' when paired together ought to sound like an oxymoron. Yet we have learned that marginalized group members have somehow not earned the same protection under the law as others. Although the law is the site at which ordinary citizens depend on jurisprudence, fairness, and integrity in the United States, the failure of the state apparatus to ensure such protection has facilitated the production of border communities. By '…
Glocal riddim: Cultural production and territorial identity in Caribbean music videos
Over the past two decades, several musical genres have transcended their Caribbean origins to achieve global recognition and success. Among these are soca, dancehall and reggaeton, all forms that had been inextricably tied to native cultural expressions, but have become increasingly popular as global commodities, particularly as web-based streaming platforms (e.g. YouTube) enhance their global audiovisual mobility. Numerous artists within these g…
Beyond Curry and Caliphs: How Advocacy in Education Has Shaped Hindu‐Muslim Relations in the United States
Republicans Listen to Rap, Too: Tupac’s Engagement with Black Conservatism
In the 25-plus years since his death, Tupac Shakur’s legacy has been reimagined as one of a fighter of social injustice and revolutionary whose discography ushered in an era of more “conscious” rap. The consensus scholarly and popular re-imagining of Shakur’s legacy as that of a progressive social justice advocate in the nearly 30 years since his death downplays or altogether overlooks his occasional alignment with conservative ideas. But this re…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (5 works) · Politics (5 works)