The post-racial mystique : media and race in the twenty-first century / Catherine R. Squires.
2014
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Title
The post-racial mystique : media and race in the twenty-first century / Catherine R. Squires.
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New York : New York University Press, [2014]
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©2014.
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1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations.
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Critical cultural communication.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: Squires, Catherine R. Post-racial mystique : media and race in the twenty-first century. New York : New York University Press, [2014] viii, 234 pages Critical cultural communication
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English
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9780814770788 e-book
9780814762899 (hardback)
9780814770603 (paper)
9780814762899 (hardback)
9780814770603 (paper)
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