Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix - Paperback

by Erica B. Edwards (Author), Jennifer Esposito (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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 one's access to and experience within all levels of education. She also interrogates how popular culture functions as an educative site.