Race and Representation – 1:00pm, Axinn 232
Chair: Jim Ralph
Erik Bleich, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science
Media Portrayals of Muslims: How Bad Are They?
Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies
How Black Lives Matter in The Wire
Brandon Baird & Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, Assistant Professors of Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics
Hearing race on a single word: a study in experimental sociophonetics
Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics
Deficit Discourse and the Education of Refugee-background Students