Race, Culture and Media

Anamik Saha is a Professor in Race and Media in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. His research is on issues of race, culture and media, with a particular focus on creative and cultural industries and issues of ‘diversity’. He is the author of Race and the Cultural Industries (Polity, 2018), and Race, Culture and Media (first edition, Sage, 2021) and co-author of The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto with Francesca Sobande and Gavan Titley (Polity, 2024). He is the co-author of the AHRC-funded industry report Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing with Sandra van Lente (Goldsmiths Press, 2020), which led to his inclusion in the The Bookseller’s 2020 list of most influential people in the book trade. His research has featured across a range of media, including BBC Radio, The Guardian, TES and The New Statesman. He is an editor of European Journal of Cultural Studies.

The 2nd Edition of Race, Culture and Media is the most comprehensive and thorough account we have yet of how media make race, how culture makes race mean, and how those meanings underwrite, sustain, protect, and actualize forms of power that insure advantage and disadvantage based on race and other entangled forms of difference in all of their 21st century permutations, manifestations and expressions.

• Chapter 1: Culture and Representation in the Study of Race and RacismChapter 2: The Study of Race in Media StudiesChapter 3: Media and the PostcolonialChapter 4: Race, Capitalism and MediaChapter 5: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and MediaChapter 6: Race and Media PowerChapter 7: Media, Migration and RacismChapter 8: Islamophobia and MediaChapter 9: The Production and Circulation of Blackness in MediaChapter 10: Digital Race/RacismChapter 11: Conclusion – The Postcolonial Cultural Economy Approach to Race, Culture and Media