This book examines media depictions of intersecting components of marginalized identity. Through a study of how combined identities demonstrate a specific worldview, the contributors to this collection frame their understanding of media intersectionality as complex and multi-layered.

Intersectional Media: Representations of Marginalized Identities analyzes media depictions of a variety of intersecting identities. Through a study examining how components of identity such as race, class, ethnicity, age, ability, class, and sexuality mesh and form a unique worldview, contributors to this collection frame their understanding of media intersectionality as complex and multi-layered studies of identity. Rather than focusing on any one component of marginalized identity, this book broadens the scope of inquiry and encourages audiences to recognize the complexity of media analysis when a combination of marginalized identities is depicted. Contributors demonstrate their understanding of how different components of identity combine and create new, original components of identity, paving the way for new studies of both media and identity. Scholars of media studies, identity studies, cultural studies, minority studies, gender studies, race studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli

Chapter 1: Intersecting Dimensions of Identity in Nonna Maria's Cantina Canadese

Giovanna P. Del Negro

Chapter 2: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality in Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby

Robert Kellerman

Chapter 3: A Work in Progress: Advancing Intersectionality In and Through Queer Television

Katrina Webber and Layla Cameron

Chapter 4: Race, Poverty, and Narco-capitalism on The Wire: A Political Economic Analysis

Michael Johnson, Jr.

Chapter 5: The Transgender Super Nanny, Babysitter Gin: A Postcolonial Analysis

Kimiko Akita

Chapter 6: The Intersection Between Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in the HBO series, My BrilliantFriend: The Cost of Defiance and Resistance

Theresa Carilli

Chapter 7: UpWord Mobility: The Intersection of Rhetorics, Hip Hop, and History in Hamilton: An American Musical

Sara Raffel and Amanda Hill

Chapter 8: Kim Chi at RuPaul’s Drag Race: Rearticulating Fatphobia, Sissyphobia, and Asianphobia in the Gay Male Community in American Context

Quang Ngo

Chapter 9: Framing the Democratic Socialists of America? National and Local Information Flows in Media Coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Maha Bashri

Selected References

About the Editors

About the Authors