Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix [Hardcover]

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Methodological Rationale

Chapter 3. Ethics and Popular Culture: What are the Boundaries?

Chapter 4. Reading Television Sitcoms Intersectionally

Chapter 5. Reading Popular Music Intersectionally

Chapter 6. Reading Film Intersectionally

Chapter 7. Reading Social Media Intersectionally

Chapter 8. Epilogue

Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture employs intersectional analysis as a theory, methodology, and method to explore how identities like race, class, gender, and sexuality are represented and constructed in popular culture forms. 

Erica B. Edwards is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Wayne State University. Her research focuses youth experiences with exclusionary discipline at the intersections of racism, classism, and sexism. Considering the central ideological role of popular culture in youth experiences, Erica also writes about the educative value of television, film, and music from a Black feminist perspective.

Jennifer Esposito is a professor of educational policy studies at Georgia State University. Her research includes the ways race, class, gender, and sexual orientation shape ones access to and experience within all levels of education. She also interrogates how popular culture functions as an educative site.

Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix explores how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other social categol#,