ISBN:
9780814770788
,
0814770789
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Critical cultural communication
Series Statement:
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
DDC:
302.230973
Keywords:
Geschichte 2000-2013
;
Medien
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Bürgerrecht
;
Race and media
;
Post-racialism
;
Cultural pluralism in mass media
;
Mass media and race relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
;
LAW / Media & the Law
;
USA
Abstract:
"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"--...
URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28793
