The Post-Racial Mystique : Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century Paperback / softback
by Catherine Squires
Part of the Critical Cultural Communication series
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:243 pages, 16 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:04/04/2014
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- ISBN:9780814770603
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:243 pages, 16 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:04/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780814770603
