The Post-Racial Mystique : Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century / Catherine R. Squires.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Squires, Catherine R., Author.

Series:

Critical Cultural Communication

Critical Cultural Communication ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race and media.

Post-racialism--United States.

Post-racialism.

Cultural pluralism in mass media--United States.

Cultural pluralism in mass media.

Mass media and race relations--United States.

Mass media and race relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite claims frompundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seemto keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inaugurationof the first Black president to resurgent debates about policeprofiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When facedwith fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks andLatinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has eruptedin the last decade: What does being post-racial mean?The Post-Racial Mystique exploreshow a variety of media—the news, network television, and online, independent media—debate,define and deploy the term “post-racial” in their representations of Americanpolitics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media—from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audienceinteractions on social media—Catherine Squires draws upon a variety ofdisciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, andcultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framingpost-racial America. She reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S.history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, andinventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulatedifferent ways of responding to race.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Post-Racial News

2. Brothers from Another Mother

3. The Post-Racial Family

4. Post-Racial Audiences

5. Not “Post-Racial,” Race-Aware

Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-7078-9

OCLC:

870951072