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

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Squires, Catherine

 
9780814762899: The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN 10 : 0814762891 ISBN 13 : 9780814762899
Editeur : New York University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814762891
ISBN 13 
9780814762899
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
243
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780814770603: The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century

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ISBN 10 :  0814770606 ISBN 13 :  9780814770603
Editeur : New York University Press, 2014
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