Racism, the media … and alternative (sonic) culture

This essay develops Titley’s discussion of racism and the media through a concerted engagement with popular culture, and specifically with sound and YouTube video culture. Expanding Titley’s notion of “debatability”, it asks what alternatives to racism are held in popular culture, and in a time of nationalist, racist and authoritarian assertion, why the identification of such alternatives might matter for a leftist anti-racist project.