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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? The Post-Racial Mystique explores how a variety of media - 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 - Catherine Squires 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.

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• Full title: Post-Racial Mystique
• Subtitle: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century
• Author: Catherine R. Squires
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 243
• EAN: 9780814770603
• ISBN: 0814770606
• ID: 04932282
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 229 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. April 2014

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