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03381aam a2200505 i 4500 001 0934CF20177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 191217t20202020ncua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019057955 020 $a 1469655802 020 $a 9781469655802 020 $a 1469655799 020 $a 9781469655796 035 $a (OCoLC)1119473790 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDF $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.N4 $b G66 2020 082 00 $a 791.43/6552 $2 23 100 1 $a Gomer, Justin, $e author. 245 10 $a White balance : $b how Hollywood shaped colorblind ideology and undermined civil rights / $c Justin Gomer. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b University of North Carolina Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiii, 252 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 490 1 $a Studies in United States culture 520 $a "The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.' However, in the decades after the civil rights movement, the ideology of colorblindness co-opted the language of the civil rights era in order to reinvent white supremacy and dismantle the civil rights movement's legal victories without offending political decorum. Yet, the spread of colorblindness could not merely happen through political speeches, newspapers, or books. The key, Justin Gomer contends, was film--as race-conscious language was expelled from public discourse, Hollywood provided the visual medium necessary to dramatize an anti-civil rights agenda over the course of the 70s, 80s, and 90s"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index. 505 0 $a The law is crazy!: Antistatism and the emergence of colorblindness in the early 1970s -- Keep away from me, Mr. Welfare Man: Claudine, welfare, and black independent film -- He looks like a big flag: Rocky and the origins of Hollywood colorblind heroism -- I can't wear your colors: Rocky III and Reagan's war on civil rights -- We are what we were: imagining America's colorblind past -- Lord, how dare we celebrate: colorblind hegemony and genre in the 1990s 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Post-racialism $z United States. 650 0 $a Racism in popular culture $z United States. 650 0 $a Motion picture industry $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. 650 7 $a Motion picture industry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027150 650 7 $a Post-racialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01747455 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 $a Racism in popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086660 650 7 $a Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01431527 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 20th century. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Studies in United States culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025954.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0934CF20177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search