Jane Rhodes
Professor of Black Studies
Biography
Jane Rhodes, Professor of Black Studies
Credit: UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Katie Klema
The media, including print, electronic and digital, are crucial for how society obtains images and ideas about race, gender and other categories of difference.
Jane Rhodes is a historian who studies how mass media represent Black American life, culture and politics, from the era of slavery to the present. Rhodes is equally interested in how Black people create alternative media to build community and social movements, as well as to counteract anti-Black sentiments and policies. She has studied how aggrieved communities use media as forms of resistance and empowerment. Her work also examines the gender politics of Black American communities and social movements and the lives of Black expatriates across the Atlantic, particularly in Great Britain.
SparkTalks: Jane Rhodes (video)
Media Mentions
Marcyliena Morgan, Harvard’s ‘scholar queen of hip-hop,’ dies at 75
Boston Globe
How one Chicago woman’s genealogical search led her to a potter’s field in Canada
Chicago Tribune
The state of Black media in Illinois
Illinois Public Media
