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The post-racial mystique :

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The post-racial mystique :

[Book]

media and race in the twenty-first century /

Catherine R. Squires.

New York :

New York University Press,

[2014]

©2014

1 online resource (244 pages) :

illustrations

Critical cultural communication

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Post-Racial News: Covering the "Joshua Generation" -- 2. Brothers from Another Mother: Rescripting Religious Ties to Overcome the Racial Past -- 3. The Post-Racial Family: Parenthood and the Politics of Interracial Relationships on TV -- 4. Post-Racial Audiences: Discussions of Parenthood's Interracial Couple -- 5. Not "Post-Racial," Race-Aware: Blogging Race in the Twenty-First Century.

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"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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Post-racial mystique.

9780814762899

Cultural pluralism in mass media.

Mass media and race relations-- United States.

Post-racialism-- United States.

Cultural pluralism in mass media.

LAW-- Media & the Law.

Mass media and race relations.

Post-racialism.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Social Psychology.

United States.

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PSY-- 031000

Squires, Catherine R.,1972-

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