Struggling to Find Black Counternarratives:Multiculturalism,Black Entertainment Television, and the Promise of 'Star Power'

Struggling to Find Black Counternarratives:Multiculturalism,Black Entertainment Television, and the Promise of 'Star Power'

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harewood, Terrence O'Neal
Language:English
Published: Miami University / OhioLINK 2002
Subjects:
Black Entertainment Television
BET
Education
Black Counternarratives
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1020349622
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami10203496222021-08-03T05:38:54Z Struggling to Find Black Counternarratives:Multiculturalism,Black Entertainment Television, and the Promise of 'Star Power' Harewood, Terrence O'Neal Black Entertainment Television BET Education Black Counternarratives Skeptical about the radical potential of multicultural education given its cooptation by mainstream educational discourses, this dissertation explores the possible existence of counternarratives of Blackness within commercialized popular culture. In light of the fact that Blacks watch television at astronomical rates unparalleled to other U.S demographic groups, I interrogate Black Entertainment Television (BET), the nation’s first African American owned and operated multimedia conglomerate, in order to illuminate possible counter-hegemonic narratives of Blackness. I argue that in order for multicultural education to engender any substantial educational and social transformation, the discourse must be rearticulated, from a postcolonial and cultural studies perspective, as the study of youth identity formation which centers pedagogy around discursive practices that influence the construction of youth subjectivities. From a postcolonial and cultural studies perspective, multicultural education is about understanding, reaffirming, and “troubling” identities. It is also about understanding how identities are discursively produced, represented, and performed in society. As such, the mass media and sites such as BET must be subjected to intense critique as an integral dynamic of multiculturalism. My project makes the case for a syncretic pedagogy which employs critical media literacy as the curriculum framework and problematizes the essentialist and binary logics that have come to characterize multicultural education in the United States. 2002-05-08 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1020349622 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1020349622 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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BET
Education
Black Counternarratives
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BET
Education
Black Counternarratives
Harewood, Terrence O'Neal
Struggling to Find Black Counternarratives:Multiculturalism,Black Entertainment Television, and the Promise of 'Star Power'
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title Struggling to Find Black Counternarratives:Multiculturalism,Black Entertainment Television, and the Promise of 'Star Power'
title_short Struggling to Find Black Counternarratives:Multiculturalism,Black Entertainment Television, and the Promise of 'Star Power'
title_full Struggling to Find Black Counternarratives:Multiculturalism,Black Entertainment Television, and the Promise of 'Star Power'
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