Post-Racial Mystique Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Post-Racial Mystique Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780814770603

ISBN-10: 0814770606

ISBN-13: 9780814770603

Edition: 2014

Authors: Catherine Squires

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 243
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Catherine R. Squires is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America .