Can You Hear Us Now: Inclusivity in the Media

S2 E5The Depiction of Rural and Southern Individuals and Communities in the Media

Episode Summary

Through this topic, we wish to explore how rural and southern people are presented in various media forms in order to confront, analyze and break down often harmful stereotypes and depictions of rural and southern people.

Episode Notes

Guest include:  Von Diaz, writer, documentary producer, and author of Coconuts and Collards:  Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South.  Diaz is also a Professor of the Practice in the American Studies Department at UNC Chapel-Hill

Kim LeQuire of Kornegay Family Farms.