Research
Dr. Khadijah Costley White researches identity in media, social change, politics, race, equity, storytelling, and police activism. One of her most recent projects — This is Not a Drill — is an immersive listening installation that examines the impact of active shooter drills in schools on society.
Publications & Presentations
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White, K. (September 2021). Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Pacific Blackness Down, Out, and Under. International Journal of Communication.
Christian, A., & White, K. (September 2020). Organic representation as cultural reparations. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Ng, E., White, K., & Saha, A. (co-editors). (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite – Special issue of Communication, Culture, and Critique.
Ng. E., White, K., & Saha, A. (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite: Race and power in the academy and Beyond. Communication, Culture, and Critique. https://doi.org10.1093/ccc/tcaa011
White, K. (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite – Interview with Oscar Gandy and Herman Gray. Communication, Culture, and Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa008
White, Khadijah. (2018). Branding Right Wing Activism: The News Media and the Tea Party. NY:Oxford University Press.
White, K. (2018). Herman in Theory and Practice: Race and Power. Media Theory. (Released online and in print)
White, K. (2016). Black Lives on Campuses Matter: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Black Student Movement (PDF). Soundings: Journal of Politics and Culture.
Stanfill, M., White,K., Korn, J., Martin, J., Gurrie, C. (2018). Climate on Campus: Intersectional Interventions in Contemporary Struggles. In D. Travers Scott & Adrienne Shaw (Eds), Interventions: Communication Theory and Practice, ˆ, Peter Lang, New York.
White, K. (2017). The Case of “Misguided” “Thugs”: Baltimore Youth, Activism, and News. In Linda Steiner & Silvio Waisbord (Eds), Race, Rage, and the City: Uncovering Baltimore, Routledge.
Christian, A.J., & White, K. (2016). One man Hollywood: The decline of black creative production in post-network television. In The Tyler Perry Anthology. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press.
White, K. (2015). BangClash: Belongingness and the Harlem drummers. Urban Geography.
White, Khadijah. (2014). Fade from Black: Black becoming Africana (PDF). Journal of Pan-African Studies.
White, Khadijah. (2012). "Considering Sound: Language, Meaning and the Construction of Noise," in Reverberations Paul Hegarty, Benjamin Halligan and Michael Goddard (Eds.) Noise: Affect, Politics and Aesthetics.
White, Khadijah. (2011). Built for Battle. Possible Futures: A Project of the Social Science Research Council.
"White, Khadijah. (2011). Michelle Obama: Redefining the (White) House-wife." Thirdspace: a Journal of Feminist Theory & Culture.
White, Khadijah. (2005). Review: Checker, Melissa. Polluted Promises, in Transforming Anthropology.
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White, K. (2018, July 4). – For Hope in Trump’s America. I Read Sojourner Truth. New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/opinion/sunday/trump-politics-hope-sojourner-truth.html
White K. (2018, February 28) What We All Can Do About Racism, Star Ledger/NJ.com, Available at: https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/02/black_history_month_how_to_combat_racism_when_its.html
White, K. (2016, May 25). On Freddie Gray and the America I know. Role Reboot. Available at http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-03-shouldnt-surprised-donald-trumps-risehttp://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-05-freddie-gray-america-know
White, K. (2016, March 21). Why you shouldn’t be surprised by Donald Trump’s rise. Role Reboot. Available at http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-03-shouldnt-surprised-donald-trumps-rise
Essay on Adrian Peterson child abuse case for The Atlantic
Role/Reboot article listing unarmed Black women killed by police officers
Piece on children and race for the Katie Couric Show
Op-ed on the Occupy Movement and urban policy in the Philadelphia Inquirer. August 30, 2012.
Review of film "Sparkle" and Black female representation at NewBlackMan. August 25, 2012.
“What Men Should Learn from Michelle,” Chronicle of Higher Education Brainstorm Blog. July 2, 2009.
White, Khadijah. Essay contributed to National Association of Black Journalists Journal, Spring 2008.
“The Producer Snapshot: Robert Moses,” Your America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
“Democracy in the Deep South,” contributed to “NOW on PBS." August 18, 2006.
Contributed to National Association of Black Journalists Blog on Senegal/UN trip 2007.
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Missing White Women, Missing America (2014), Race and Media Conference, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Citizen Journalism in Tea Party News (2012), International Journal of Journalism Studies, Santiago, Chile.
“Tea’d Off: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party” (2011), International Association for Media and Communication Research, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.
"Redeeming Black Women on the Silver Screen" (2011), Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, LA.
"Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Blackness Down, Out, and Under” (2011), International Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA.
“BangClash: Belongingness and the Harlem Drummers” (2011), Race and Space Symposium, Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA.
“Michelle Obama: Redefining the (White) House – Wife” (2010), International Communication Association Conference, Singapore.
Guest speaker - Pants on the Ground Film Festival (2010)
Discussed and answered questions with officials and parents of the South Orange/Maplewood School District about a segment that I produced on Robert Moses, urban education, and the Algebra Project on May 12, 2010 .With Katz, Elihu. “Electronic Empowerment? On Interacting with Officials and Professionals in the Age of New Media.” (2009) Presented by Elihu Katz at Zeppelin University as part of lecture series on The Media in Knowledge Societies at Friedrichshafen, Germany, March 2, 2009
“A Marriage of Convenience: Black becoming Africana.” (2008) Presented at the annual AYA African American Studies Conference at Temple University (PDF), Philadelphia, PA, April 11-12.
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