Rachel Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3418-2434 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Media History that Speaks Back in Moments of Crisis
Journalism and Media History Matters. It matters now more than ever. We must not only continue to share whole truth[s] about the past, but we must also be willing to speak up in this moment where w
WheresTiffany: Redefining Racial Broadcast Norms With Tiffany Cross’ MSNBC Removal
Black female MSNBC anchor Tiffany Cross’ show, The Cross Connection , was canceled abruptly on November 4, 2022. As a result, #WheresTiffany started trending on Twitter, now called X, on November 5, 2022. The purpose of the study is to examine the racial reckoning of Black female anchors during “post-racial” U.S. politics. Using critical discourse analysis, we analyzed the Twitter discourse of the #WheresTiffany hashtag and found the following di…
Black wife, upgraded life: An examination of the commodification of Black womanhood and racework in interracial relationships on social media
The Black Wife Effect (BWE) trend took TikTok by storm around May 2024, when predominantly white men showcased makeovers attributed to their Black wives. We used a multimodal critical discourse analysis of BWE posts to evaluate how these media construct Black womanhood and their intimate labor in the context of interracial relationships. The findings show that, through digital racework, the BWE trend constitutes a set of replicable controlling im…
“The Highest Expression of Black Power: ” The Burning Spear Newspaper Fights for Global Black Unity
The Burning Spear is the oldest Black Power newspaper in existence and has been published without interruption since the 1960s. During the Black Power movement, it emphasized Pan-African ideals and anti-colonial theory and practice as the publication of the Junta of Militant Organizations (JOMO), and later, under the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), it positioned Black Floridians as key Black leaders pushing for Black separatism and Black…
Free our Sisters: ” Coverage of female political prisoners in The Black Panther newspaper
Rehistoricizing Black Masculinity in The Wonder Years Reboot
Popular entertainment remains one of the last places where Black history lives on despite the recent political erasure of U.S. Black struggles. The 2021 reboot of The Wonder Years, reframing Black masculinity through the young eyes of main character Dean Williams, rehistoricizes modern notions of Black families in the post-Civil Rights Movement. The purpose of this study is to explore Black masculinity media representations within reboot culture …
Eyespots: Supernatural or supernormal? A case study from Papua New Guinea
Eyespots are found across many taxa, usually for predator intimidation. In human artefacts, eye designs have been presumed to have an apotropaic function (warding off supernatural evil and envy) rather than an evolutionary function related to protection from agonistic interactions. We hypothesised that, instead, eyespot designs may have been used in human cultures for intimidation of opponents (deimatic display). We examined 1,070 objects from Pa…
Focusing on the fellas: Stacey Abrams’ social media campaign addresses misogynoir in U.S. politics
After narrowly losing the Georgia (US) gubernatorial election in 2018, Stacey Abrams adopted a novel approach to secure the Black male vote, staging a series of events known as “Stacey and the Fellas.” This study delves into the discourse surrounding those events and their impact on misogynoir directed at Abrams. We employ a misogynoir framework to investigate the U.S. media narratives that Black women, particularly in politics, must redefine. Fi…
It All Begins With a Name: Examining News During the Ketanji Brown Jackson Judicial Nomination
After winning the US presidency, Joe Biden fulfilled a promise and put forward the name of Ketanji Brown Jackson as a nominee to the highest court in the nation on 25 February 2022. The purpose of this study is to explore media coverage of the historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. In recent years, US politics have expanded to include more Black women, who have been making historic firsts. We argue th…
With Pride: ” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Black Parenting of Zaya
In 2020, former NBA player Dwyane Wade discussed how his child, Zaya came out as transgender. He used his platform to generate discussions about Black parenting specifically parenting a child in the Black transgender community. In the past 3 years, Wade and his celebrity wife Gabrielle Union have shared their parental journey of Zaya through social media and mainstream media. This study explores the identity complexities of critical race parentin…
Paralleling the Gay Man's Trauma: Monkeypox Stigma and the Mainstream Media
Mainstream media portrayed monkeypox as a sexually transmitted disease through government guidance and increased a sense of hypersexualization and stigma among gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM). The purpose of this study is to understand how the US mainstream media perpetuated stigma toward gay and bisexual men (MSM) in its coverage of monkeypox in 2022. This article, therefore, contributes to the fields of queer studies and health comm…
From #Rona to #Omarion: Black Twitter’s hashtag activism and critical discourse of Covid-19 pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social media was one of the key digital spaces for community and information. As cases and deaths rose within US Black communities, Black Twitter continued to serve as a counterpublic for humor, health commentary, and hashtag activism. This study will examine the techno discourses of Black Twitter’s usage of hashtag activism during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that the hashtags and tweets used within the Black…
The Versatility of Intersectionality in Journalism and Mass Communication Research
“City by city: ” Reclaiming people of color voices through the Narrative Justice Project
The Narrative Justice Project (NJP) challenges master narratives and creates more complex understandings by delving into the human-interest aspects of mass communications. For people of color (POC), the mass media is a racialized tool used in the historical context to justify the lack of rights or equality. This study illustrates how counter-stories function as a redefinition of humanity. The NJP training presents those communication values for P…
Selling Breonna: Twitter Responses to Breonna Taylor on the Covers of O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair
Black women are largely invisible in mainstream media’s coverage of police brutality, despite the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Breonna Taylor’s killing by police in March 2020 gained some media attention after George Floyd’s killing. To engage with BLM, O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair released special issues in September 2020 featuring Taylor’s portrait on the covers. This study examined the Twitter response to these cover…
“As High as I Could: ” Media Discourse Shaping Patricia Okoumou’s Statue of Liberty Protest
News coverage around monuments and statues have served as spaces of resistance for marginalized communities. The Statute of Liberty protest of Patricia Okoumou challenged the U.S. immigration policies by connecting collective memory to media narratives. This paper argues that competing understandings of Okoumou’s protests appeared in mainstream media and the social media platform, Twitter. In response, Okoumou would start her own website and blog…
(Re)Contextualizing English language teaching in Thailand to address racialized and ‘Othered’ inequities in ELT
‘Race applied to human beings is a political division: it is a system of governing people that classifies them into a social hierarchy based on invented biological demarcations’ (Roberts, 2011 Roberts, D. (2011). Fatal invention: How science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century. New Press/ORIM. [Google Scholar], p. x). Foregrounding our racialized histories, we show how our lives intersect in a doctoral seminar i…
The White Side of the Fence: ’ Charlotta Bass and the Wesley Robert Wells Case, 1947–1954
The study examined the leadership role of Charlotta Bass, the editor/publisher of the California Eagle in Los Angeles during the 1950s. Bass helped lead a massive protest campaign in the legal case for Wesley Robert Wells, an inmate sentenced to death row in 1947. During the Cold War, scholars recognized that Black women challenged patriarchal leadership by creating their own paths toward Black radicalism. Bass’ leadership is significant because …
“No Longer Interested in Convincing You of My Humanity”: Undocuqueer Countervisualities Reclaim the Right to Exist
By examining the images that Undocuqueer activists circulate in online spaces, this study explores how activists rely on visual expression to reveal and reframe the complex forces that shape Undocuqueer life in the United States. Undocuqueer visual communications expose (1) the in-betweenness that defines the Undocuqueer experience, (2) the expanding transnational intersectional coalitions at the foundation of the movement, and (3) a reconceptual…
“Improving the Race”: The Discourse of Science and Eugenics in Local News Coverage, 1905–1922
In the early twentieth century, journalism contributed to the eugenics movement before it reached national and global saliency. Local newspapers played a role in writing about eugenics in Columbia, Missouri, that integrated “scientific” discourse with questions about the social and cultural makeup. Examining the Missouri School of Journalism’s newspaper, the Columbia Missourian, and the city’s newspaper, the Columbia Tribune, shows that the media…
Larger than life: Celebrity journalism, gender and black politics in Fay M. Jackson's Hollywood adventures, 1933-1935
This historical article analyses the work of an under-recognised black female journalist, Fay M. Jackson, who wrote as the Associated Negro Press Hollywood correspondent during the 1930s. Drawing from the literature on celebrity studies, the black press and black feminist thought, this study reveals how Hollywood’s first black female correspondent brought visibility and personhood to black celebrities while employing conventional journalistic str…
Ground Water Chemistry Changes before Major Earthquakes and Possible Effects on Animals
Prior to major earthquakes many changes in the environment have been documented. Though often subtle and fleeting, these changes are noticeable at the land surface, in water, in the air, and in the ionosphere. Key to understanding these diverse pre-earthquake phenomena has been the discovery that, when tectonic stresses build up in the Earth's crust, highly mobile electronic charge carriers are activated. These charge carriers are defect electron…
Developing literacy in second‐language learners: Critique from a heteroglossic, sociocultural, and multidimensional framework
The authors review and discuss the work presented in Developing Literacy in Second‐Language Learners: Report of The National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth, edited by Diane August and Timothy Shanahan
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Citizenship Education: Using African Proverbs as Tools for Teaching in Urban Schools
Preparing today's children to be tomorrow's global citizens will require social educators who have knowledge of the histories, experiences, and cultural practices of the children they teach. This article offers culturally responsive pedagogy and the African proverb as frames for teaching African American students to become engaged local and global citizens
Forging Multilingual Communities: School-based Strategies
In this article, we share how 2 multilingual/multicultural school communities work to build strong relationships with immigrant families to support parent involvement and language minority student achievement
Women Faculty of Color in Tesol: Theorizing Our Lived Experiences
Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. (Lorde, 1984a, p. 112)
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Citizenship Education: Using African Proverbs as Tools for Teaching in Urban Schools
Preparing today's children to be tomorrow's global citizens will require social educators who have knowledge of the histories, experiences, and cultural practices of the children they teach. This article offers culturally responsive pedagogy and the African proverb as frames for teaching African American students to become engaged local and global citizens
It All Begins With a Name: Examining News During the Ketanji Brown Jackson Judicial Nomination
After winning the US presidency, Joe Biden fulfilled a promise and put forward the name of Ketanji Brown Jackson as a nominee to the highest court in the nation on 25 February 2022. The purpose of this study is to explore media coverage of the historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. In recent years, US politics have expanded to include more Black women, who have been making historic firsts. We argue th…
Developing literacy in second‐language learners: Critique from a heteroglossic, sociocultural, and multidimensional framework
The authors review and discuss the work presented in Developing Literacy in Second‐Language Learners: Report of The National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth, edited by Diane August and Timothy Shanahan
Forging Multilingual Communities: School-based Strategies
In this article, we share how 2 multilingual/multicultural school communities work to build strong relationships with immigrant families to support parent involvement and language minority student achievement
Barriers to Literacy for Language-Minority Children: An Argument for Change in the Literacy Education Profession
Forging Multilingual Communities: School-based Strategies
In this article, we share how 2 multilingual/multicultural school communities work to build strong relationships with immigrant families to support parent involvement and language minority student achievement
Women Faculty of Color in Tesol: Theorizing Our Lived Experiences
Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. (Lorde, 1984a, p. 112)
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Citizenship Education: Using African Proverbs as Tools for Teaching in Urban Schools
Preparing today's children to be tomorrow's global citizens will require social educators who have knowledge of the histories, experiences, and cultural practices of the children they teach. This article offers culturally responsive pedagogy and the African proverb as frames for teaching African American students to become engaged local and global citizens
Developing literacy in second‐language learners: Critique from a heteroglossic, sociocultural, and multidimensional framework
The authors review and discuss the work presented in Developing Literacy in Second‐Language Learners: Report of The National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth, edited by Diane August and Timothy Shanahan
Ground Water Chemistry Changes before Major Earthquakes and Possible Effects on Animals
Prior to major earthquakes many changes in the environment have been documented. Though often subtle and fleeting, these changes are noticeable at the land surface, in water, in the air, and in the ionosphere. Key to understanding these diverse pre-earthquake phenomena has been the discovery that, when tectonic stresses build up in the Earth's crust, highly mobile electronic charge carriers are activated. These charge carriers are defect electron…
Larger than life: Celebrity journalism, gender and black politics in Fay M. Jackson's Hollywood adventures, 1933-1935
This historical article analyses the work of an under-recognised black female journalist, Fay M. Jackson, who wrote as the Associated Negro Press Hollywood correspondent during the 1930s. Drawing from the literature on celebrity studies, the black press and black feminist thought, this study reveals how Hollywood’s first black female correspondent brought visibility and personhood to black celebrities while employing conventional journalistic str…
“No Longer Interested in Convincing You of My Humanity”: Undocuqueer Countervisualities Reclaim the Right to Exist
By examining the images that Undocuqueer activists circulate in online spaces, this study explores how activists rely on visual expression to reveal and reframe the complex forces that shape Undocuqueer life in the United States. Undocuqueer visual communications expose (1) the in-betweenness that defines the Undocuqueer experience, (2) the expanding transnational intersectional coalitions at the foundation of the movement, and (3) a reconceptual…
“Improving the Race”: The Discourse of Science and Eugenics in Local News Coverage, 1905–1922
In the early twentieth century, journalism contributed to the eugenics movement before it reached national and global saliency. Local newspapers played a role in writing about eugenics in Columbia, Missouri, that integrated “scientific” discourse with questions about the social and cultural makeup. Examining the Missouri School of Journalism’s newspaper, the Columbia Missourian, and the city’s newspaper, the Columbia Tribune, shows that the media…
The White Side of the Fence: ’ Charlotta Bass and the Wesley Robert Wells Case, 1947–1954
The study examined the leadership role of Charlotta Bass, the editor/publisher of the California Eagle in Los Angeles during the 1950s. Bass helped lead a massive protest campaign in the legal case for Wesley Robert Wells, an inmate sentenced to death row in 1947. During the Cold War, scholars recognized that Black women challenged patriarchal leadership by creating their own paths toward Black radicalism. Bass’ leadership is significant because …
Selling Breonna: Twitter Responses to Breonna Taylor on the Covers of O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair
Black women are largely invisible in mainstream media’s coverage of police brutality, despite the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Breonna Taylor’s killing by police in March 2020 gained some media attention after George Floyd’s killing. To engage with BLM, O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair released special issues in September 2020 featuring Taylor’s portrait on the covers. This study examined the Twitter response to these cover…
“As High as I Could: ” Media Discourse Shaping Patricia Okoumou’s Statue of Liberty Protest
News coverage around monuments and statues have served as spaces of resistance for marginalized communities. The Statute of Liberty protest of Patricia Okoumou challenged the U.S. immigration policies by connecting collective memory to media narratives. This paper argues that competing understandings of Okoumou’s protests appeared in mainstream media and the social media platform, Twitter. In response, Okoumou would start her own website and blog…
(Re)Contextualizing English language teaching in Thailand to address racialized and ‘Othered’ inequities in ELT
‘Race applied to human beings is a political division: it is a system of governing people that classifies them into a social hierarchy based on invented biological demarcations’ (Roberts, 2011 Roberts, D. (2011). Fatal invention: How science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century. New Press/ORIM. [Google Scholar], p. x). Foregrounding our racialized histories, we show how our lives intersect in a doctoral seminar i…
The Versatility of Intersectionality in Journalism and Mass Communication Research
“City by city: ” Reclaiming people of color voices through the Narrative Justice Project
The Narrative Justice Project (NJP) challenges master narratives and creates more complex understandings by delving into the human-interest aspects of mass communications. For people of color (POC), the mass media is a racialized tool used in the historical context to justify the lack of rights or equality. This study illustrates how counter-stories function as a redefinition of humanity. The NJP training presents those communication values for P…
Rehistoricizing Black Masculinity in The Wonder Years Reboot
Popular entertainment remains one of the last places where Black history lives on despite the recent political erasure of U.S. Black struggles. The 2021 reboot of The Wonder Years, reframing Black masculinity through the young eyes of main character Dean Williams, rehistoricizes modern notions of Black families in the post-Civil Rights Movement. The purpose of this study is to explore Black masculinity media representations within reboot culture …
Eyespots: Supernatural or supernormal? A case study from Papua New Guinea
Eyespots are found across many taxa, usually for predator intimidation. In human artefacts, eye designs have been presumed to have an apotropaic function (warding off supernatural evil and envy) rather than an evolutionary function related to protection from agonistic interactions. We hypothesised that, instead, eyespot designs may have been used in human cultures for intimidation of opponents (deimatic display). We examined 1,070 objects from Pa…
Focusing on the fellas: Stacey Abrams’ social media campaign addresses misogynoir in U.S. politics
After narrowly losing the Georgia (US) gubernatorial election in 2018, Stacey Abrams adopted a novel approach to secure the Black male vote, staging a series of events known as “Stacey and the Fellas.” This study delves into the discourse surrounding those events and their impact on misogynoir directed at Abrams. We employ a misogynoir framework to investigate the U.S. media narratives that Black women, particularly in politics, must redefine. Fi…
It All Begins With a Name: Examining News During the Ketanji Brown Jackson Judicial Nomination
After winning the US presidency, Joe Biden fulfilled a promise and put forward the name of Ketanji Brown Jackson as a nominee to the highest court in the nation on 25 February 2022. The purpose of this study is to explore media coverage of the historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. In recent years, US politics have expanded to include more Black women, who have been making historic firsts. We argue th…
With Pride: ” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Black Parenting of Zaya
In 2020, former NBA player Dwyane Wade discussed how his child, Zaya came out as transgender. He used his platform to generate discussions about Black parenting specifically parenting a child in the Black transgender community. In the past 3 years, Wade and his celebrity wife Gabrielle Union have shared their parental journey of Zaya through social media and mainstream media. This study explores the identity complexities of critical race parentin…
Paralleling the Gay Man's Trauma: Monkeypox Stigma and the Mainstream Media
Mainstream media portrayed monkeypox as a sexually transmitted disease through government guidance and increased a sense of hypersexualization and stigma among gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM). The purpose of this study is to understand how the US mainstream media perpetuated stigma toward gay and bisexual men (MSM) in its coverage of monkeypox in 2022. This article, therefore, contributes to the fields of queer studies and health comm…
From #Rona to #Omarion: Black Twitter’s hashtag activism and critical discourse of Covid-19 pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social media was one of the key digital spaces for community and information. As cases and deaths rose within US Black communities, Black Twitter continued to serve as a counterpublic for humor, health commentary, and hashtag activism. This study will examine the techno discourses of Black Twitter’s usage of hashtag activism during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that the hashtags and tweets used within the Black…
“The Highest Expression of Black Power: ” The Burning Spear Newspaper Fights for Global Black Unity
The Burning Spear is the oldest Black Power newspaper in existence and has been published without interruption since the 1960s. During the Black Power movement, it emphasized Pan-African ideals and anti-colonial theory and practice as the publication of the Junta of Militant Organizations (JOMO), and later, under the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), it positioned Black Floridians as key Black leaders pushing for Black separatism and Black…
Free our Sisters: ” Coverage of female political prisoners in The Black Panther newspaper
Media History that Speaks Back in Moments of Crisis
Journalism and Media History Matters. It matters now more than ever. We must not only continue to share whole truth[s] about the past, but we must also be willing to speak up in this moment where w
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Media studies (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works)