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Demetria R. Shabazz
Female
- dshabazz@comm.umass.edu
- Telephone
- (413) 545-4276
- Personal website
- http://www.umass.edu/communication/faculty_staff/shabazz.shtml
- Interests
- Cultural rights, Film/Television Production, Language and Discourse, (post) colonialism, Race and gender in television and film
- Role(s)
- Researcher, Activist/Advocate
- Location(s) of Work
- USA
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts -- AmherstAmherst , MA, United States
Discipline(s)
- Communications
- Media / Production
Biography
Ph.D., University of Alabama, 2005
M.A., University of Alabama, 2000
B.A., University of Houston, 1995
Author of "Birth Through Conflict: TV Responds to the Politics of Race in 1968"; "“Wilson 'Boozoo' Anthony Chavis: Zydeco Musician"; "Beulah to Clair Huxtable: Depictions of Black Women and Mothering on American TV."
Current research addresses gender discourse in American regional music; African and Asian women filmmakers; counter-hegemonic representations in film and television; black women and performance in film and television.