While it may be impossible to adequately address all the issues facing black content creators in any one blog, there is a growing amount of literature and scholastic articles tackling these issues. Below are just a few examples of the literature we have come across while launching this investigation.
- Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet, Lisa Nakamura – Routledge – 2002
- Cyberghetto Or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet, Praeger – 1998
- Media and Ethnic Minorities, Valerie Alia, Simone Bull – Edinburgh University Press – 2005
- Media & Minorities: The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment, Stephanie Greco Larson – Rowman & Littlefield – 2006
- Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction, Debra L. Merskin – Peter Lang – 2011
- News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, Juan González, Juan Gonzlez, Joseph Torres – Verso – 2012
- Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy: Selling Black Entertainment Television, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade- 2012
- Race After The Internet, Routledge – 2012
- Race and Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina: Analysis, Implications, and Future Research Questions, Samuel R. Sommers – 2006
- Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice, Jonathan Markovitz – Routledge – 2011
- Savage Portrayals: Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story, Natalie Byfield – Temple University Press – 2013
- The Adventures of Amos n’ Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon, Melvin Patrick Ely- University of Virginia Press- 2001
- The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes, Paul M. Kellstedt – Cambridge University Press – 2003
- Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio, William Barlow- 1998