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The Post-Racial Mystique : Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century / Catherine Squires.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Cultural Communication ; 25Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource : 16 black and white illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814762899
  • 9780814770788
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.230973 23
LOC classification:
  • P94.65.U6 S77 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: 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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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