Arbiters of Race : Cultural Intermediaries, Racism, and Consumer Industries (Paperback)

Introduction: Arbiters of Race? Instilling Race into Our Understandings of Cultural Intermediaries, Erik T. Withers and David L. Brunsma; Section One: Arbitering Race in the Media; 1. Organizations as Cultural Intermediaries? A Case-Study of a Conservative Think Tank, Annie Jones and J. Scott Carter; 2. Cultural Intermediaries Promoting Critical Racial Consciousness: The Potential Public Pedagogy of Podcasts, Jan Meij; Section Two: Arbitering Race in Creative Industries; 3. Behind the Scenes: The Institutional Uses of “Diversity” in the Production of MoMA’s Film Curatorship, Tania Aparicio; 4. Curating Music Festivals: The Racialized Entanglements on the Curation of Music Festivals, Jo Haynes; Section Three: Arbitering Race in Bodies; 5. “The Darkest Shade”: Mediating the Politics of Skin Tone, Jordan Foster; 6. Cosmetic Surgeons as Arbiters of a Beautiful Nose: The Nariz Negroide in Brazil, Carole Myers; Section Four: Arbitering Race in Consumer Goods and Services; 7. Becoming Tastemakers: The Affective Labor of Latinx Millennials in the Specialty Coffee Industry, Karina Santellano; 8. Justice, Diversity, Equity, and INclusion Deja Vu: Cultural INtermediaries in the Fashion Apparel Retail Industry, Sherita M. Cuffee and Shelly Brown-Jeffy; 9. Racial Capitalism on the Retail Sales Floor: Examining Cultural Arbiters as Organizationally Embedded Actors and Informal Practices that Perpetuate the Racial Ordering of Consumers, Cassi Pittman Claytor; Section Five: Arbitering Race in Racialized Space; 10. “You Almost Can’t Describe It”: A Case Study of the National Urban League Conference for Black Space, Social Movement Communities, and Cultural Intermediaries, Candace C. Robinson; 11. Commercial Gentrification and Local Businesses as Cultural Intermediaries in the Racialization of Space, Steven Tuttle