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“Making our own”: creativity, strategy, and authority among black women media makers in New York City
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“Making our own”: creativity, strategy, and authority among black women media makers in New York City
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Confounding 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.
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Cultural Anthropology
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African Americans in the mass media industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
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Women in the mass media industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
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Women, Black -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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