{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2023-04-13T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:49:33","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/debra-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/debra-smith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/575\/2023\/04\/newheadshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/debra-smith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/575\/2023\/04\/newheadshot-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/debra-smith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/575\/2023\/04\/newheadshot-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/debra-smith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/575\/2023\/04\/newheadshot.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Debra C. Smith is Associate Professor of Africana Studies.\u00a0 Her research and teaching interest include Health and Environment, Medical Humanities, African-Americans in communication and popular culture, minority images in the media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., University North Carolina-Greensboro<\/li>\n<li>M.A., University North Carolina-Charlotte<\/li>\n<li>M.A., East Carolina University<\/li>\n<li>B.A., University North Carolina-Chapel Hill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African-Americans in Communication and Popular Culture<\/li>\n<li>Minority Images in Media<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: initial\">Medical Humanities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: initial\">Health and Environment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: initial\">Teaching Strategies utilizing Popular Culture<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Media Literacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Legacies:\u00a0 African American Female Pioneers.<\/em>\u00a0 Cognella Press, 2019<\/p>\n<p>The Words Unspoken: The Hidden Power of Language, Carolina Academic Press, 2008, 142pp (ISBN-10: 1-59460-174-7. ISBN-13: 978-1-59460-174-3)<br \/>\n<strong>Recent Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(In Press) Debra C. Smith and Julia Jordan Zachary. \u201cI Woke up Feeling Bad\u201d: Black Studies and a Pedagogy of Emotion. <em>Negro Journal of Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(In Press) Debra C. Smith, Black Greek Step Shows. In African Battle Traditions of Insult:\u00a0 Africana Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance edited by Tanure Ojaide.\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan Academic Press.\u00a0 ISBN 978-3-031-15616-8<\/p>\n<p>(In press) Davis, J. Joy and Debra C. Smith.\u00a0 Heavy is the head that wears the crown:\u00a0 A Manifestation of Black Girl Magic.\u00a0 In <em>Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels:\u00a0 Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You\u2019ve Been Told about Black Women<\/em>.\u00a0 Edited by Abayomi Animashaun, Black Lawrence Press, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>(2021) Smith, Debra\u00a0 C., James, C. D., &amp; Griffiths, M. A. Co-brand partnerships making space for the next black girl: Backlash in social justice branding. <em>Psychology &amp; Marketing<\/em>, 38(12) pp. 2314-2236. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/mar.21566\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/mar.21566<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orbe, Mark, Debra C. Smith, Christopher R. Groscurth &amp; Rex L. Crawley.\u00a0 &#8220;Exhaling So That We Can Catch Our Breath and Sing:\u00a0 Reflections on Issues Inherent in Publishing Race-related Communication Research.&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Southern Journal of Communication<\/em> 75 (2); (2010)\u00a0184 &#8211; 194.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Critiquing Reality-Based Televisual Black Fatherhood:\u00a0 A Critical Analysis of Run\u2019s House and Snoop Dogg\u2019s Fatherhood.&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Critical Studies in Media Communications.\u00a0 <\/em>25(4): (2008)\u00a0393-412.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of Brutal Necessity:\u00a0 Rap Music and Black Language.\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Making Connections: \u00a0Journal for Teachers of Cultural Diversity,<\/em> Vol, 10, No. 3. (2008)\u00a041-62.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, Robert and Debra C. Smith (2009)\u00a0 &#8220;<em>The Wire<\/em>:\u00a0 <em>Media Placement and Postindustrial \u00a0Landscapes&#8221; <\/em>(pp. 73-93). \u00a0In Zachery Williams (ed) Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan (Series Editors:\u00a0 Manning Marable and Peniel Joseph).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading, Writing and Watching TV:\u00a0 The Pedagogy of the Pre-Schooler:\u00a0 A Case Study in Teaching Media Literacy&#8221; (2009): pp 173-189.\u00a0 In \u00a0Marcus Leaning (ed) Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Education, Practice and Pedagogy.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Santa Rosa:\u00a0 Informing Science Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Popularizing Folklore in the Age of Text-messaging Millenials.&#8221; Folklore Journal, Volume 118, Issue 1, April 2007, Routledge Publishers, (2007) pp 91-99.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cartoon Culture: How Maya and Miguel Exceed Beyond the 1990 Children&#8217;s Television Act. &#8220;Wilson, Leslie (ed) Readings in Popular Culture. Press Americana: The Institute for the Study of Popular Culture, November 2006, pp 105-112.<br \/>\n<strong>Current Projects: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dear Charles:\u00a0 The North Carolina That Black Women Built<\/li>\n<li>Soul Labor:\u00a0 Putting soul work into course work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Courses Taught:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AFRS 2105 \u2013 Black Images in the Media<\/li>\n<li>AFRS 2170 &#8211; Health and Environment in the Africana World<\/li>\n<li>AFRS 3290 \u2013 Research Methods<\/li>\n<li>AFRS 3050 &#8211; African Americans and Education<\/li>\n<li>AFRS 1100 \u2013 Introduction to Africana Studies<\/li>\n<li>LBST 2102 \u2013 Minorities in the Media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Debra C. Smith is Associate Professor of Africana Studies.\u00a0 Her research and teaching interest include Health and Environment, Medical Humanities, African-Americans in communication and popular culture, minority images in the media. 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