The post-racial mystique : media and race in the twenty-first century
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The post-racial mystique : media and race in the twenty-first century
（Critical cultural communication / general editors, Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kent A. Ono）
New York University Press, c2014
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The post-racial mystique : media & race in the twenty-first century
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Welcome to Post-Racial America 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 Conclusion: Back to the Post-Racial Future Notes Index About the Author
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