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Dr. Roslyn Satchel is a scholar-activist who researches and teaches about communication, ethics, and law. She is a Berkman Klein Center Fellow at Harvard Law School and serves as a Professor and head Researcher at Kennesaw State University, the Radow Institute for Social Equity.

Roslyn is an experienced strategic communication consultant and an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In her book, What Movies Teach about Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure and Entitlement, she brings her media, legal, and religion background together to examine cultural representations in the most influential films of all time.

Her research partners with violence against women experts to develop online interventions that improve access, resources and outcomes for intimate partner violence victims/survivors.

Rev. Dr. Roslyn Satchel’s current position is Interim CEO at The New Georgia Project (NGP) and New Georgia Project Action Fund (NGPAF). “I’m honored to step into this role and continue building power with Black, young, and other left out and underestimated communities–a commitment to which I’ve dedicated my career,” said Dr. Satchel. “This is a critical election year for racial justice, economic justice, healthcare access, reproductive freedom, and more. I’m energized and confident in Georgia voters’ power to shape our future.”

 “Rev. Dr. Satchel is one of the country’s leading scholars on race, media, and public policy as it relates to Black and Brown people across the U.S. and throughout the African diaspora,” said NGP Board Chair and NGPAF Treasurer Francys Johnson.”

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What Movies Teach About Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure and Entitlement

Dr. Satchel brings together her media, legal, and religious backgrounds to examine media representations and the ways they connect with political, economic, and social systems that impact human rights globally.

What Movies Teach about Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure and Entitlement  reveals the way that media frames in entertainment content persuade audiences to see themselves and others through a prescriptive lens that favors whiteness. These media representations threaten democracy as conglomeration and convergence concentrate the media's global influence in the hands of a few corporations. By linking film's political economy with the movie content in the most influential films, this critical discourse study uncovers the socially-shared cognitive structures that the movie industry passes down from one generation to another.

Roslyn M. Satchel encourages critical media literacy and proposes an entertainment media cascading network activation theory that uncovers racialized rhetoric in media content that cyclically begins in historic ideologies, influences elite discourse, embeds in media systems, produces media frames and representations, shapes public opinion, and then is recycled and perpetuated generationally.

What Movies Teach About Race provides a piercing critique of the racial binaries at the heart of the most influential movies in history. As Satchel deftly reveals, American film industry monopolies have, for the past four decades, rhetorically assailed global audiences with films that have collaterally championed white supremacy and American exceptionalism.

This very timely investigation, which is really about the relationship between the power of film and democracy, ends with a call to researchers, educators, students, activists and audiences, but most of all to the American movie industry, to break free from the divisive formulas of racialized film, and aspire to a cinematic literacy that upholds social justice as the frame through which we see ourselves in the movies we watch.

DAVID C. HOLMES / MONASH UNIVERSITY

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