{"title":"Anamik Saha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnamik Saha\u003c\/strong\u003e explores critical perspectives on race, media, and cultural industries with a sharp, scholarly focus. His works examine how race shapes representation and participation within media landscapes, offering insightful critiques of systemic inequalities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in education and reference, Saha’s writing challenges readers to reconsider the politics of race and the potential for anti-racist change in cultural fields. His books are essential for those interested in media studies, race theory, and social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-anti-racist-media-manifesto-by-francesca-sobande-9781509559848","title":"The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we make media anti-racist?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rise of the far right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police violence have challenged the dominant complacency that racism was a thing of the past. We are now witnessing the renewed anti-racist commitment of social movements and the rising authoritarianism that seeks to suppress it. Rather than making media ‘less racist’, how can media systems be transformed in ways that actively challenge the production of racism? What should an anti-racist media look like?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Anti-Racist Media Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e by Saha, Sobande, and Titley addresses these timely questions to outline the essential steps for working towards an anti-racist media future. Revealing how the media are implicated in racism, the authors consider how systems, policies, and practices can be transformed to confront and prevent it. Focusing on the problems of impartiality, the limits of diversity and representation, and the contradictions of digital culture, this manifesto illuminates key strategies and suggestions to move us closer to an anti-racist media future for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363010953452,"sku":"9781509559848","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12620733482725.jpg?v=1772912058"},{"product_id":"race-and-the-cultural-industries-by-anamik-saha-9781509505319","title":"Race and the Cultural Industries","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStudies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. However, there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take the shape that they do. How, one might ask, is race created by cultural industries?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this important new book, Anamik Saha encourages readers to focus on the production of representations of racial and ethnic minorities in film, television, music, and the arts. His interdisciplinary approach combines critical media studies and media industries research with postcolonial studies and critical race perspectives. This reveals how political economic forces and legacies of empire shape industrial cultural production and, in turn, media discourses around race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRace and the Cultural Industries\u003c\/em\u003e is required reading for students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in why historical representations of 'the Other' persist in the media and how they are to be challenged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597556334828,"sku":"9781509505319","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509505319-race-and-the-cultural-industries.jpg?v=1777957625"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/anamik-saha.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}