 Profile
Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika is a scholar, journalist, organizer and artist who holds an assistant professorship in popular culture in Clemson university\\\'s department of Communication and a creativity professorship in Clemson University’s College of AAH. Dr. Kumanyika\\\'s research interests involve intersections between popular culture and social justice. Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika is a scholar, journalist, organizer and artist who holds an assistant professorship in popular culture and a creativity professorship in Clemson University’s department of Communication Studies. He is a contributor to Transom, NPR Codeswitch, All Things Considered (NPR), Invisibilia (NPR), VICE, and a news analyst for RisingUp Radio which airs on Pacifica stations KPFA and KPFK, and several affiliate stations.
Dr. Kumanyika is a member of International Communication Association, the National Communication Association. The Union for Democratic Communication, |
Research InterestsBroadly, Dr. Kumanyika's research interests involve intersections between popular culture and social justice. This includes the critical study of production processes, industry dynamics and textual meaning in music, television, and radio. This also includes exploration of media production and the use of both technology and entertainment aesthetics in social movements. Research PublicationsAsh, E., Sanderson, J., Kumanyika, C., & Gramlich, K. (In Press 2016). Just Goes
To Show How These Hoes….” Journal of Sports Media, TBA
Kumanyika, Chenjerai. (2015):‘We demand justice. We just getting started’:
the constitutive rhetoric of 1Hood Media's hip-hop activism. Popular
Music 34.03 432-451.
Kumanyika, C., Elavsky, M, P. (Aug 2013). Microphone Czech, Keepin’ it Real:
Politics of Creative Strategy in Cross-Cultural Musical Production, Popular
Communication.
Kumanyika, C. (2011). Advertainment and the Construction of Decision-making
Power in MTV’s Making the Band. Popular Music and Society, 34(4),
475-491.
Book Chapters and Supplements
Kumanyika, C. (2016) “Livestreaming in The Black Lives Matter Network:
Day, Amber (Ed.), DIY Utopia, Rowan and Littlefield. (Forthcoming)
Kumanyika, C. (2016). Policing and the "War on Black Bodies & College
Literature, 43(1), 252-258.
Kumanyika, C., Gray Paradise “Hip-Hop Activist Digital Literacy Pedagogy:
Pittsburgh’s 1Hood Media Academy Williams, R & Frechette, J. West
(Eds.), Media Education for a Digital Generation New York: Routledge.
McAllister, M. P., & Kumanyika, C. (March 2013). “Brut slaps…and twins”:
Hypercommercialized sports media and the intensification of gender
ideology. LinksAcademia.edu
Washington Post Story
Transom Vocal Color
NPR Codeswitch
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