The Post-Racial Mystique : Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century

Catherine R. Squires

ISBN 10: 0814770606 / ISBN 13: 9780814770603

Editore: NYU Press - IPS Apr 2014, 2014

Neuware - 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. Codice articolo 9780814770603

Riassunto:

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.

L'autore: Catherine R. Squires is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America.

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Titolo: The Post-Racial Mystique : Media and Race in...
Casa editrice: NYU Press - IPS Apr 2014
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu