Race and Independent Media Project

Principal Investigator: Chon Noriega (Film and Television) and Eve Oishi (Women’s Studies, CSU Long Beach).

Graduate Research Assistants: Hye Seung Chung, Jun Okada, María Muñoz, and Alison Hoffman (Film and Television).

Graduate Participants: Rita González and Azadeh Farahmand (Film and Television)

Description: This project challenges two tendencies in scholarly research on race in film and television studies: (1) racial groups tend to be studied either in isolation or on the basis of a one-to-one relationship with the dominant culture; (2) Hollywood often serves as the critical framework and object of study. The project started in 2001 and involves ten scholars from across the United States committed to developing a comparative analysis focused on independent media. To date, participants have produced several reports and are working on a book publication.

Faculty participants: Richard E. Espinoza, Assistant Professor, Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University; Anna Everett, Professor, Film Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Peter X. Feng, Associate Professor, English, University of Delaware; L.S. Kim, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz; Kathleen McHugh, Associate Professor, English, UCLA; Eve Oishi, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, CSU Long Beach; Michelle Raheja, Assistant Professor, English, UC Riverside; Yeidy Rivero, Assistant Professor, Latino Studies, Indiana University; Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara; and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, Associate Professor, English, University of Chicago.

Reports & Briefs:

Minority Filmmakers, Media Institutions, and Press Discourse: A Comparative Analysis

Hye Seung Chung and Jun Okada, with assistance by Maja Manojlovic

CSRC Research Report No. 5, January 2005

Looking For Latino Regulars on Prime-Time Television: The Fall 2004 Season

Alison R. Hoffman and Chon A. Noriega

CSRC Research Report No. 4, December 2004

Looking For Latino Regulars on Prime-Time Television: The Fall 2003 Season

Alison R. Hoffman and Chon A. Noriega

CSRC Research Report No. 3, April 2004

Looking for Latino Regulars on Prime-Time Television: The Fall 2002 Season

Alison Hoffman

CSRC Research Report No. 1, March 2003

Ready For Prime Time: Minorities on Network Entertainment Television

Dr. Chon A. Noriega 

Latino Policy and Issues No. 2, May 2002