Advanced search
Publication Cover
Communication Quarterly Volume 44, 1996 - Issue 4
Submit an article Journal homepage
315
Views
58
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Race and popular cinema: The rhetorical strategies of whiteness in city of joy

Raka Shome Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195
Pages 502-518 | Published online: 21 May 2009

Citations (58)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (36)

Michael G. Lacy. (2023) Black Frankenstein in D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America. Critical Studies in Media Communication 40:1, pages 20-40.
Read now
Benjamin S. Boyce. (2021) Racist compared to what? the myth of white wokeness. Whiteness and Education 6:2, pages 115-129.
Read now
Emma Frances Bloomfield. (2021) Transcorporeal Identification and Strategic Essentialism in Eco-Horror: mother!’s Ecofeminist Rhetorical Strategies. Environmental Communication 15:3, pages 339-352.
Read now
A. Cheree Carlson. (2020) Whiteness of a Darker Shade: Reclassifying Italian-Americans in the Trials of Maria Barbella. Western Journal of Communication 84:5, pages 528-549.
Read now
Assatu N. Wisseh. (2019) Mapping Mammy 2.0: Insecure and the Middle-Class Black Woman's Burden. Howard Journal of Communications 30:5, pages 391-410.
Read now
Greg Procknow. (2019) The pedagogy of saneness: a schizoaffective storying of resisting sane pedagogy. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 32:5, pages 510-528.
Read now
Audra K. Nuru & Colleen E. Arendt. (2019) Not So Safe a Space: Women Activists of Color’s Responses to Racial Microaggressions by White Women Allies. Southern Communication Journal 84:2, pages 85-98.
Read now
Aaron Dickinson Sachs & Scott M. Schönfeldt-Aultman. (2018) A dialogue on hip-hop, social justice and pedagogy. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 26:2, pages 265-281.
Read now
Scott M. Schönfeldt-Aultman. (2014) Sweating Race: White Expatriate South African Readers Constructing Race and Racial Identities in JULUKA’s Mail Bag. Safundi 15:1, pages 53-74.
Read now
Scott M. Schönfeldt-Aultman. (2014) Just kidding? Humour, rhetoric and racial inference in newsletters of a San Francisco Bay Area South African group. Critical Arts 28:1, pages 19-39.
Read now
Suman Mishra. (2013) Projections of Power, News Framing, and India's 2010 Commonwealth Games. Howard Journal of Communications 24:2, pages 178-193.
Read now
Mary Grace Antony. (2012) “Slum-Pups No More”: Rescuing India's Slum Children. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 41:1, pages 17-36.
Read now
Davi Johnson Thornton. (2011) Psych's Comedic Tale of Black–White Friendship and the Lighthearted Affect of “Post-Race” America. Critical Studies in Media Communication 28:5, pages 424-449.
Read now
Hannelie Marx & Viola Candice Milton. (2011) Bastardised whiteness: ‘zef’-culture, Die Antwoord and the reconfiguration of contemporary Afrikaans identities. Social Identities 17:6, pages 723-745.
Read now
Katherine Bell. (2011) “A Delicious Way to Help Save Lives”: Race, Commodification, and Celebrity in Product (RED). Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 4:3, pages 163-180.
Read now
Davi Johnson Thornton. (2010) Race, Risk, and Pathology in Psychiatric Culture: Disease Awareness Campaigns as Governmental Rhetoric. Critical Studies in Media Communication 27:4, pages 311-335.
Read now
MichaelG. Lacy. (2010) White Innocence Heroes: Recovery, Reversals, Paternalism, and David Duke. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 3:3, pages 206-227.
Read now
Matthew Richard Schlimm. (2010) The Necessity of Permanent Criticism: A Postcolonial Critique of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven . Journal of Media and Religion 9:3, pages 129-149.
Read now
Srividya Ramasubramanian & Mary Beth Oliver. (2007) Activating and Suppressing Hostile and Benevolent Racism: Evidence for Comparative Media Stereotyping. Media Psychology 9:3, pages 623-646.
Read now
David Nylund. (2006) Critical Multiculturalism, Whiteness, and Social Work. Journal of Progressive Human Services 17:2, pages 27-42.
Read now
Srividya Ramasubramanian. (2005) A Content Analysis of the Portrayal of India in Films Produced in the West. Howard Journal of Communications 16:4, pages 243-265.
Read now
DreamaG. Moon & ThomasK. Nakayama. (2005) Strategic Social Identities and Judgments: A Murder in Appalachia. Howard Journal of Communications 16:2, pages 87-107.
Read now
C. Mo Bahk & FredE. Jandt. (2004) Being White in America: Development of a Scale. Howard Journal of Communications 15:1, pages 57-68.
Read now
Janet M. Cramer. (2003) White Womanhood and Religion: Colonial Discourse in the U.S. Women's Missionary Press, 1869-1904. Howard Journal of Communications 14:4, pages 209-224.
Read now
Naomi Rockler. (2002) Race, whiteness, "lightness," and relevance: African American and European American interpretations of Jump Start and The Boondocks. Critical Studies in Media Communication 19:4, pages 398-418.
Read now
Jennifer Willis-Rivera & Melissa Meeker. (2002) De Que Colores: A Critical Examination of Multicultural Children's Books. Communication Education 51:3, pages 269-279.
Read now
LisaA. Flores & DreamaG. Moon. (2002) Rethinking race, revealing dilemmas: Imagining a new racial subject in race traitor . Western Journal of Communication 66:2, pages 181-207.
Read now
Roberto Avant‐Mier & Marouf Hasian$suffix/text()$suffix/text(). (2002) In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America's ethnic past. Communication Quarterly 50:3-4, pages 391-409.
Read now
JudithN. Martin & Olga Idriss Davis. (2001) Conceptual foundations for teaching about whiteness in intercultural communication courses. Communication Education 50:4, pages 298-313.
Read now
Alice Hall. (2001) Film reviews and the public's perceptions of stereotypes: Movie critics' discourse about the siege . Communication Quarterly 49:4, pages 399-423.
Read now
Marouf Hasian$suffix/text()$suffix/text() & HeleneA. Shugart. (2001) Melancholic nostalgia, collective memories, and the cinematic representations of nationalistic identities in indochine . Communication Quarterly 49:4, pages 329-349.
Read now
JohnT. Warren. (2001) The social drama of a ‘rice burner’: A (re)constitution of whiteness. Western Journal of Communication 65:2, pages 184-205.
Read now
Raka Shome. (2000) Outing whiteness. Critical Studies in Media Communication 17:3, pages 366-371.
Read now
Dreama Moon & LisaA. Flores. (2000) Antiracism and the abolition of whiteness: Rhetorical strategies of domination among “race traitors”. Communication Studies 51:2, pages 97-115.
Read now
Amos Kiewe. (1999) The Body as Proof: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Preparations for the 1932 Presidential Campaign. Argumentation and Advocacy 36:2, pages 88-100.
Read now
KirtH. Wilson. (1999) Towards a discursive theory of racial identity: The souls of black folk as a response to nineteenth‐century biological determinism. Western Journal of Communication 63:2, pages 193-215.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (22)

Scott M. Schönfeldt-Aultman & Marlon C. Mendieta. (2024) Creating tears in the fabric of whiteness. Emotion, Space and Society 51, pages 101005.
Crossref
Kent A. Ono. 2023. The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication 73 83 .
Jules Sandeau. (2022) Visages blancs sur fond blanc : étudier les représentations de la blanchité à l’écran. Miranda:24.
Crossref
Suman Mishra. (2021) Globalizing male attractiveness: Advertising in men’s lifestyle magazines in India. International Communication Gazette 83:3, pages 280-298.
Crossref
Shehram Mokhtar. (2020) Aberrant sexualities: Others under the gaze of transnational documentary. Sexualities 24:3, pages 456-473.
Crossref
Sadia Jamil & Anna Gladkova. 2021. Ethnic Journalism in the Global South. Ethnic Journalism in the Global South 9 21 .
Georgina Oana Gabor. (2019) The Autoethnographic Undertaking: A Day in Ron Pelias’ Life. Qualitative Inquiry 26:10, pages 1250-1263.
Crossref
Greg Procknow. (2019) The Pedagogy of Saneness: Sane-Centricity in Popular Culture as Pedagogy. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development 31:1, pages 4-21.
Crossref
Erin Ash. (2017) Emotional Responses to Savior Films: Concealing Privilege or Appealing to Our Better Selves?. Projections 11:2.
Crossref
Caitlin Frances Bruce. (2016) Episode III: Enjoy Poverty : An Aesthetic Virus of Political Discomfort . Communication, Culture & Critique 9:2, pages 284-302.
Crossref
Briar Thompson & C Kay Weaver. (2014) The challenges of visually representing poverty for international non-government organisation communication managers in New Zealand. Public Relations Inquiry 3:3, pages 377-393.
Crossref
Verity Clarke & Debbie Watson. (2014) Examining Whiteness in a Children's Centre. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 15:1, pages 69-80.
Crossref
David C. Oh & Omotayo O. Banjo. (2012) Outsourcing Postracialism: Voicing Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Outsourced . Communication Theory 22:4, pages 449-470.
Crossref
Jonathan P. Rossing. (2011) Deconstructing Postracialism. Journal of Communication Inquiry 36:1, pages 44-61.
Crossref
Kent A. Ono. 2010. The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication 84 97 .
Karin Gwinn Wilkins. (2009) Mapping Fear and Danger in Global Space. International Communication Gazette 71:7, pages 561-576.
Crossref
Naomi R. Rockler. (2006) Friends, Judaism, and the Holiday Armadillo: Mapping a Rhetoric of Postidentity Politics. Communication Theory 16:4, pages 453-473.
Crossref
Diane Susan Grimes. (2016) Challenging the Status Quo?. Management Communication Quarterly 15:3, pages 381-409.
Crossref
Kyle W. Kusz. (2016) “I Want to be the Minority”. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 25:4, pages 390-416.
Crossref
Astrid Kersten. (2000) Diversity management. Journal of Organizational Change Management 13:3, pages 235-248.
Crossref
Aimee M. Carrillo Rowe. (2000) Locating Feminism's Subject: The Paradox of White Femininity and the Struggle to Forge Feminist Alliances. Communication Theory 10:1, pages 64-80.
Crossref
Peter McLaren, Aimee M. Carrillo-Rowe, Rebecca L. Clark & Philip A. Craft. (2019) Storming the White House: Critical Interrogations of Whiteness. International Journal of Educational Reform 7:1, pages 56-65.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Supercharge Your Next Research Paper: Research and write your next paper with Jenni AI.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.