This dialogue features media historian Dr. Jane Rhodes, who tends to “think back as well as forward,” and media sociologist Dr. Herman Gray, who asks a guiding question of Black media studies, “What does Black add to [the] formulation [of Black media studies]?”
“This is the activist question: how do you shift that? How do you get people to have a much more critical understanding that is not going to create transformation overnight, but can chip away, perhaps, at the most egregious parts of this.”