Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Novotny Lawrence
  • Civil rights. The Scottsboro Boys' experiences as resource to create a more perfect union / Joseph l. Smith
  • The Clinton 12 and prom night in Mississippi: conversations in integration / Eric Pierson
  • A national concern: remembering and teaching the death of Emmett Till / Kevin E. Grimm
  • Fear factor: when black equality is framed as militant winsome / Chunnu-Brayda and Travis D. Boyce
  • Sports. A "perpetual threat": unforgivable blackness and Jack Johnson as a transmedia sports icon / Michael Graves
  • From Compton to center court: Venus and Serena and the black female experience in professional tennis / Novotny Lawrence
  • Electronic media immortalizing Dorothy Dandridge in documentary, African American press and mainstream press / Charlene Regester
  • "Rated R because it's real": discourses of authenticity in Wattstax / Mike Phillips
  • A glance at her story: black female documentarians navigating beyond the Theresa / Renee White, Sara Tekle and Melanie Shaw
  • Documenting grassroots history as a means to social change: 778 bullets, community engagement and the legacy of rural civil rights / Angela J. Aguayo
  • And beyond: the contemporary black struggle. Sundown nation: living in the aftermath of an American Holocaust / David Rossiaky
  • Portrait of Jason: a reappraisal / Gerald R. Butters Jr
  • Dancing as voice: krumping and clowning in rize as black vernacular rhetoric / Joshua Daniel Phillips
  • Gender, the streets and violence: Ameena Matthews and violence interruptions in the interrupters / Ashley Farmer.