Episode 26: Liza Black on Indigenous (Mis)Representations in Media

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Dr. Liza Black shares her insights about how depictions of Native Americans in media, such as film and television, affect Indigenous peoples and communities. She underscores the impacts of misrepresentations and lack of understanding Native Americans by drawing connections between her first book Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 (2020) and her manuscript in-progress “How to Get Away with Murder,” which is a transnational history of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Dr. Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and an Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies and history at Indiana University. She examines the motivations of territory and the intersections of representation and violence. Dr. Black developed a lifelong interest in studying Native identity and struggle and in advocating for protecting Native people from violence and exploitation. In “Native TV in 2021: Putting the I in BIPOC,” Dr. Black was featured in Perspectives on History discussing the recent surge of Native-centered television representation in Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs. Her work has appeared in more than 20 academic and non-academic outlets.

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