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Author Gillam, Reighan, author.

Title Visualizing Black lives : ownership and control in Afro-Brazilian media / Reighan Gillam
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 137 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Mediating resistance : Afro-Brazilian media and movements -- 2. TV da Gente and controlling the means of media production -- 3. Animating racism : irony and images of dissent -- 4. Independent lenses : learning to see in Afro-Brazilian film -- Conclusion: Antiracist visual politics
Summary "A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-first century. With works that confront racism and focus on Black characters, these artists and the visual media they create identify, challenge, or break with entrenched racist practices, ideologies, and structures. Gillam looks at a cross-section of media to show the ways Afro-Brazilians assert control over various means of representation in order to present a complex Black humanity. These images--so at odds with the mainstream--contribute to an anti-racist visual politics fighting to change how Brazilian media depicts Black people while highlighting the importance of media in the movement for Black inclusion. An eye-opening union of analysis and fieldwork, Visualizing Black Lives examines the alternative and activist Black media and the people creating it in today's Brazil"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2022)
Subject Black people and mass media -- Brazil
Black people in mass media.
Racism in mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Black people and mass media
Black people in mass media
Race relations
Racism in mass media
SUBJECT Brazil -- Race relations
Subject Brazil
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021046192
ISBN 0252053400
9780252053405