Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 314 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780814762226
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9780814762233
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9780814762363
Series Statement:
Critical cultural communication
Content:
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. In this groundbreaking collection edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono, scholars seek to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. An out
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: Racialized Masculinities; 1 Apocalypse: The Media's Framing of Black Looters, Shooters, and Brutes in Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath; 2 Tales of Tragedy: Strategic Rhetoric in News Coverage of the Columbine and Virginia Tech Massacres; 3 N-word vs. F-word, Black vs. Gay: Uncovering Pendejo Games to Recover Intersections; PART II: Whiteness; 4 Quentin Tarantino in Black and White; 5 Patrolling National Identity, Masking White Supremacy:The Minuteman Project
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6 Control, Discipline, and Punish: Black Masculinity and (In)visible Whiteness in the NBAPART III: Vernacular Resistances; 7 Declarations of Independence: African American Abolitionists and the Struggle for Racial and Rhetorical Self-Determination; 8 Transgressive Rhetoric in Deliberative Democracy: The Black Press; 9 Bling Fling: Commodity Consumption and the Politics of the "Post-Racial"; PART IV: Racialized Complexities and Neocolonialism; 10 The Rhythm of Ambition: Power Temporalities and the Production of the Call Center Agent in Documentary Film and Reality Television
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11 Inscribing Racial Bodies and Relieving Responsibility: Examining Racial Politics in Crash12 Cinematic Representation and Cultural Critique: The Deracialization and Denationalization of the African Conict Diamond Crises in Zwick's Blood Diamond; 13 Abstracting and De-Racializing Diversity: The Articulation of Diversity in the Post-Race Era; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814762226
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Critical Rhetorics of Race
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Ono, Kent A. 1964-
