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

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.

Table of 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