Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index.
Contents:
Welcome to post-racial America -- Post-racial news: covering the "Joshua generation" -- Brothers from another mother: rescripting religious ties to overcome the racial past -- The post-racial family: Parenthood and the politics of interracial relationships on TV -- Post-racial audiences: discussions of Parenthood's interracial couple -- Not "post-racial," race-aware: blogging race in the twenty-first century -- Back to the post-racial future.
Summary:
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? This book explores how a variety of media incuding 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, the author 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. -- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.