The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Cultural Communication, 25)

Squires, Catherine

ISBN 10: 0814770606 / ISBN 13: 9780814770603

Edité par NYU Press, 2014

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• Titre: The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Cultural Communication, 25)
• Éditeur: NYU Press
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0814770606
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780814770603
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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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.

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.