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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Squires, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Cultural Communication ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 16 black and white illustrations
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814770788; 9783110728996
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762899.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Catherine Squires.

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.