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H. Gray, Chair
C. West, Grad Director
B. Crow, UG Educ Cmte Chr

College 8, 226
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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Herman S. Gray

Herman S. Gray   
Herman S. Gray
    Title:  Professor and Chair
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  herman@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3715 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message
    Office:  College 8, 327
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Wed 10-11am and 3:30-5:30pm; and Mon by appt

Courses Taught 
SOCY-116 - Communication and Mass Media
SOCY-260 - Culture, Knowledge, Power

Research Focus 
Cultural studies; popular culture; mass communication; minority discourse.

Education History 
B.A., Florida A&M University
M.A., Washington State University
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Publications 
Gray, H. 2001. "Cultural Politics as Outrage(ous)" Renaissance Noire. Vol. 3, #1:Pp. 92-101.

_____. 2001. "The New Conditions of Black Cultural Production, Or Prefiguring of a Black Cultural Formation." In L.C. Bower, D. T. Goldberg, and M.Musheno , eds. Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 224-271.

_____. 2001."Black Representation in the Post Network, Post Civil Rights World of Global Media." In Simon Cottle (ed.) Race, Racism and the Mass Media. The Open University Press.

_____. 2001. "Desiring the Network and Network Desire" Critical Studies in Mass Media. Vol. 18, #1:Pp. 103-108.

_____. 1999. "Troubling Empiricism" Rethinking Race, Troubling Empiricism, Critica Monograph Series (Spring): Pp. 1-7.

_____. 1999. "A Different Dream of Difference" Critical Studies in Mass Communication (December): Pp. 484-488.

_____. 1997. "Anxiety, Desire, and Conflict in the American Racial Imagination." In J. Lull and S. Hinerman, eds. Media Scandals: Morality and Desire in the Popular Culture Marketplace. Polity Press.

_____. 1997. "Television" In W. Andrews, F.S. Foster, T. Harris, eds. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press.

_____. 1997. "Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics." In E. Long ,ed. Engaging Cultural Studies: From Sociolgy to Cultural Studies. Blackwell.

_____. 1996. "Conversations: Racial Formation in Contemporary American National Identity" Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture. Vol. 2, #2: Pp. 186-190.

_____. 1995. "Watching Race: Television and the Sign of Blackness." Minnesota.

_____. 1993. "African American Political Desire and the Seductions of Contemporary Cultural Politics." Cultural Studies.

_____. 1993. "Cultural Theory, Social Constructionism, and Social Problems." In J. Holstein and G. Miller, eds., New Directions for Social Constructionism. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine de Gruyter.

_____. 1991. "Recodings: Possibilities and Limitations in Commercial Television Representations of African American Culture." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 13:117-130.

_____. 1991. "Television, Black Americans, and the American Dream." In R. Avery and D. Eason, eds., Critical Perspectives in Media and Society. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 294-306.

_____. 1989. "Rate the Records: Symbolic Conflict, Popular Music and Social Problems." Popular Music and Society, 13(3):5-16.

_____. 1988. Producing Jazz: The Experience of an Independent Record Company, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.