The Post-Racial Mystique (eBook)

Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century

Catherine Squires (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-6460-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Despite claims frompundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seemto keep finding ways to talk about race from celebrations of the inaugurationof the first Black president to resurgent debates about policeprofiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When facedwith fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks andLatinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has eruptedin the last decade: What does being post-racial mean?The Post-Racial Mystique exploreshow a variety of media the news, network television, and online, independent media debate,define and deploy the term post-racial in their representations of Americanpolitics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audienceinteractions on social media Catherine Squires draws upon a variety ofdisciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, andcultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framingpost-racial America. She reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S.history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, andinventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulatedifferent ways of responding to race.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments  Introduction: Welcome to Post-Racial America  1. Post-Racial News: Covering the “Joshua Generation”  2. Brothers from Another Mother: Rescripting Religious Ties to Overcome the Racial Past 3. The Post-Racial Family: Parenthood and the Politics of Interracial Relationships on TV  4. Post-Racial Audiences: Discussions of Parenthood’s  Interracial Couple 5. Not “Post-Racial,” Race-Aware: Blogging Race in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Back to the Post-Racial Future Notes Index About the Author 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Cultural Communication
• Zusatzinfo: 16 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8147-6460-6 / 0814764606
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-6460-2 / 9780814764602