| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical cultural communication
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Critical cultural communication.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about race--from celebrations of the inauguration of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When faced with fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks and Latinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has erupted in the last decade: What does being post-racial mean?The Post-Racial Mystique explores how a variety of media--the news, network television, and online, independent media--debate, define and deploy the term "post-racial" in their representations of American politics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media--from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media--Catherine Squires draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America. She reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S. history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, and inventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulate different ways of responding to race"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media and race relations -- United States.
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Mass media and race relations. |
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United States. |
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Cultural pluralism in mass media.
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Cultural pluralism in mass media. |
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Post-racialism -- United States.
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Post-racialism. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Squires, Catherine R., 1972- Post-racial mystique. New York : New York University Press, [2014] 9780814762899 (DLC) 2013043409 (OCoLC)863200900 |
| ISBN |
9780814770788 (electronic book) |
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0814770789 (electronic book) |
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0814762891 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780814762899 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0814770606 (paper) |
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9780814770603 (paper) |
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9780814762899 (hardback) |
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9780814770603 (paper) |
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