Introduction: the contours of race and media / Jason A. Smith and Bhoomi K. Thakore -- Structures and contention. Failure to communicate: the critical information needs debate / Randy D. Abreu -- Courting minority commodity audiences: bounce TV in the age of media conglomeration / Leah P. Hunter and Jennifer M. Proffitt -- New media & new possibilities: the online engagement of young black activists / Nathan Jamel Riemer -- Navigating contention behind the scenes. Black, Asian, and Latino directors in Hollywood / Maryann Erigha -- Is Carlos Mencia a white wetback?: mediating the (e)racing of U.S. Central Americans in the Latino imaginary / Maritza Cárdenas -- Sofía Vergara: on media representations of Latinidad / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz -- Color-blind racism in media: Mindy Kaling as an "honorary white?" / Sheena Sood -- Visual representations of contention. Drifting for whiteness: Hollywood representations of Asian Americans in the 21st century / John D. Foster -- Consuming black pain: reading racial ideology in cultural appetite for 12 years a slave / Jennifer C. Mueller and Rula Issa -- Racial ideology in electronic dance music festival promotional videos / David l. Brunsma, Nathaniel G. Chapman, and J. Slade Lellock -- Perpetuating contentious ideologies. The rise of the racial reviewer, 1990-2004 / Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Devon R. Goss, and Matthew W. Hughey -- Successful immigrants in the news: racialization, color-blind racism, and the American Dream / Jorge X. Ballinas -- Black studies in prime time: racial expertise and the framing of cultural authority / Seneca Vaught -- The good, the bad, and the ugly Muslim: media representations of "Islamic punk" through a postcolonial lens / Saif Shahin -- Conclusion looking ahead / Bhoomi K. Thakore and Jason A. Smith