Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Postracial Resistance : Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity / Ralina L. Joseph.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Cultural Communication ; 27Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 17 black and white illustrationsContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781479862825
  • 9781479818426
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48896073 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.86
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called "racists"? Or respond to racism in code only to face accusations of selling out? Postracial Resistance explores how African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences employ postracial discourse-the notion that race and race-based discrimination are over and no longer affect people's everyday lives-to refute postracialism itself. In a world where they're often written off as stereotypical "Angry Black Women," Joseph offers that some Black women in media use "strategic ambiguity," deploying the failures of post-racial discourse to name racism and thus resist it.In Postracial Resistance, Joseph listens to and observes Black women as they perform and negotiate race in strategic ambiguity. Using three methods of media analysis-textual readings of the media's representation of these women; interviews with writers, producers, and studio executives; and audience ethnographies of young women viewers-Joseph maps the tensions and strategies that all Black women must engage to challenge the racialized sexism of everyday life, on- and off-screen.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781479818426

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called "racists"? Or respond to racism in code only to face accusations of selling out? Postracial Resistance explores how African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences employ postracial discourse-the notion that race and race-based discrimination are over and no longer affect people's everyday lives-to refute postracialism itself. In a world where they're often written off as stereotypical "Angry Black Women," Joseph offers that some Black women in media use "strategic ambiguity," deploying the failures of post-racial discourse to name racism and thus resist it.In Postracial Resistance, Joseph listens to and observes Black women as they perform and negotiate race in strategic ambiguity. Using three methods of media analysis-textual readings of the media's representation of these women; interviews with writers, producers, and studio executives; and audience ethnographies of young women viewers-Joseph maps the tensions and strategies that all Black women must engage to challenge the racialized sexism of everyday life, on- and off-screen.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)