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“Making our own”: creativity, strategy, and authority among black women media makers in New York City
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Martin, Marlaina H.. “Making our own”: creativity, strategy, and authority among black women media makers in New York City. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-4ks8-0319

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Title“Making our own”: creativity, strategy, and authority among black women media makers in New York City
NameMartin, Marlaina H. (author); Schein, Louisa (chair); Berg, Ulla D (internal member); Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis (internal member); Jackson, John L (outside member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-05 (degree)
SubjectCultural Anthropology, Anthropology, African Americans in the mass media industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions, Women in the mass media industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions, Women, Black -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
Extent1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionConfounding conventional U.S. discourses that ideologically and structurally associate authority with white manhood, numerous Black women have experienced repeated dismissal in media and broader social worlds, and persisted nonetheless. In fact, legacies of entanglement between U.S. media production and images of Black womanhood have influenced – along with several other factors – many self-identified Black women to create media themselves. This ethnography of production examines how creators so identified utilize imaginative approaches to and capacities of media making as both spaces for reflection and representation, and also as means to mitigate – if not challenge – the implications and effects of mainstream exclusions. Amidst contemporary debates about institutionalized hierarchies including but not limited to Black Lives Matter, #OscarsSoWhite, and Hollywood’s gendered salary differentials, this project follows contemporary Black women creators attempting to balance technological aptitude, emotional sensibility, social awareness, and collective responsibility in their creative pursuits. Overall, this dissertation frames and engages authority not as a given status, but an ongoing technical and socio-affective process of cultivating personal confidence and authoritative praxes, crafting presentations of work and self, and managing various professional relationships and expectations.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-4ks8-0319
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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