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846332
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Squires, Catherine R.,1972-
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The post-racial mystique : : media and race in the twenty-first century /\ Catherine R. Squires.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: New York University Press,, [2014]
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, ©2014
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| Series Statement
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Critical cultural communication
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1 online resource (244 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0814762891
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: 0814770606
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: 0814770789
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: 9780814762899
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: 9780814770603
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: 9780814770788
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9780814762899
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9780814770603
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Post-Racial News: Covering the "Joshua Generation" -- 2. Brothers from Another Mother: Rescripting Religious Ties to Overcome the Racial Past -- 3. The Post-Racial Family: Parenthood and the Politics of Interracial Relationships on TV -- 4. Post-Racial Audiences: Discussions of Parenthood's Interracial Couple -- 5. Not "Post-Racial," Race-Aware: Blogging Race in the Twenty-First Century.
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| Abstract
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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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Cultural pluralism in mass media.
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Mass media and race relations-- United States.
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Post-racialism-- United States.
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Cultural pluralism in mass media.
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LAW-- Media the Law.
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Mass media and race relations.
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Post-racialism.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Social Psychology.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.230973
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| LC Classification
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P94.65.U6S77 2014eb
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| NLM classification
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LAW096000SOC031000SOC002010bisacsh
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SOC002010.bisacsh
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