Colorblind Screen, The : : Television in Post-Racial America /

Colorblind Screen, The : : Television in Post-Racial America / / Sarah E. Turner; ed. by Sarah Nilsen.

The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many therealization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer adefining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a"colorblind" racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals ofintegr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Turner, Sarah E.,
MitwirkendeR:
Alsultany, Evelyn,
Ashe, Austin,
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo,
Davé, Shilpa,
Doane, Ashley ("Woody"),
Hazelwood, Bruce Lee,
Huh, Jinny,
Ibrahim, Dina,
King, C. Richard,
Kretsedemas, Philip A.,
Leonard, David J.,
Mukherjee, Roopali,
Nilsen, Sarah,
Peck, Janice,
Turner, Sarah E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Nilsen, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I: THEORIES OF COLORBLINDNESS
  • 1. Shades of Colorblindness
  • 2. Rhyme and Reason
  • 3. The End of Racism?
  • PART II: ICONS OF POST-RACIAL AMERICA
  • 4. Oprah Winfrey
  • 5. The Race Denial Card
  • 6. Representations of Arabs and Muslims in Post-9/11 Television Dramas
  • 7. Maybe Brown People Aren't So Scary If They're Funny
  • PART III: REINSCRIBING WHITENESS
  • 8. "Some People Just Hide in Plain Sight"
  • 9. Watching TV with White Supremacists
  • 10. BBFFs
  • PART IV: POST-RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS
  • 11. Matchmakers and Cultural Compatibility
  • 12. Mainstreaming Latina Identity
  • 13. Race in Progress, No Passing Zone
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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