Through an analysis of the literature on racial and social identity development, new media and cyberculture, the following study will show that a reinvention and re-articulation of social perceptions of race through new digital media would foster a realistic understanding of cultural relevance and encourage an accurate sense of reality. Racism and discrimination continue to be a problem within our society. Images seen on television and in movies perpetuate...

"Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice."--The publisher's website

This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young...