UID:
almafu_9959239418502883
Format:
1 online resource (364 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4798-9333-1
Content:
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized racism. In The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examine television’s role as the major discursive medium in the articulation and contestation of racialized identities in the United States. While the dominant mode of televisual racialization has shifted to a “colorblind” ideology that foregrounds racial differences in order to celebrate multicultural assimilation, the volume investigates how this practice denies the significant social, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to define race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as President Obama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in which race is read by television audiences and fans. Other essays focus on how visual constructions of race in dramas like 24, Sleeper Cell, and The Wanted continue to conflate Arab and Muslim identities in post-9/11 television. The volume offers an important intervention in the study of the televisual representation of race, engaging with multiple aspects of the mythologies developing around notions of a “post-racial” America and the duplicitous discursive rationale offered by the ideology of colorblindness.
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Book.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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PART I: THEORIES OF COLORBLINDNESS --
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1. Shades of Colorblindness --
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2. Rhyme and Reason --
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3. The End of Racism? --
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4. Oprah Winfrey --
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5. The Race Denial Card --
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6. Representations of Arabs and Muslims in Post-9/11 Television Dramas --
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7. Maybe Brown People Aren’t So Scary If They’re Funny --
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8. “Some People Just Hide in Plain Sight” --
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9. Watching TV with White Supremacists --
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10. BBFFs --
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11. Matchmakers and Cultural Compatibility --
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12. Mainstreaming Latina Identity --
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13. Race in Progress, No Passing Zone --
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About the Contributors --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4798-9153-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4798-0976-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.18574/9781479893331
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479893331
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479893331
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