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Postracial mystique : media and race in the 21st century

Squires, Catherine R., 1972-

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\"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.

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Subject: Mass media and race relations United States / Cultural pluralism in mass media United States. / Post-racialism United States / Race and media. / LAW / Media & the Law. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
• ISBN: 9780814762899, 0814762891, 9780814770603, 0814770606

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
P94.65.U6 S77 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE