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

    The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century New York University Press April 2014 256 pages 9 halftones and 7 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780814762899 Paper ISBN: 9780814770603 Catherine R. Squires, Associate Professor of Communication Studies University of Minnesota Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people…

  • Mixed-Race Chic

    Mixed-Race Chic The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2009-05-19 Rainier Spencer, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs University of Nevada, Las Vegas Popular wisdom suggests that we are in the midst of a transformation in the way race is constructed in the United States. Indeed, so strong and so inevitable is this shift…

  • The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign

    The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign SUNY Press September 2010 300 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 1-4384-3659-9; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3659-3 eBook SBN10: 1-4384-3661-0; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3661-6 Edited by: Heather E. Harris, Associate Professor of Business Communication Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland Kimberly R. Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Maryland, Baltimore County Catherine R. Squires,…

  • Diversity That Matters: A Commitment to Social Justice

    Diversity That Matters: A Commitment to Social Justice CCCC: Supporting and promoting the teaching and study of college composition and communication 2009-06-04 Annette Harris Powell, Assistant Professor of English Bellarmine University I teach at a university with a mission grounded in the Catholic Intellectual tradition of faith and reason and focused on the examined life…

  • Reducing Race: News Themes in the 2008 Primaries

    Reducing Race: News Themes in the 2008 Primaries The International Journal of Press/Politics Volume 15, Number 4 (October 2010) pages 375-400 DOI: 10.1177/1940161210372962 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Sarah J. Jackson University of Minnesota This article presents a content analysis exploring how racial issues were addressed in…

  • Running Through the Trenches: Or, an Introduction to the Undead Culture Wars and Dead Serious Identity Politics

    Running Through the Trenches: Or, an Introduction to the Undead Culture Wars and Dead Serious Identity Politics Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 34, Number 3 (July 2010) pages 210-253 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota The events of the 2008 election continue to spark prognostications that we live…

  • Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America Hot Topics in Journalism and Mass Communication 2010-05-19 Queenie A. Byars, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America. Catherine R. Squires. Albany, NY: State University of New…

  • The Politics of Biracialism [Issue]

    The Politics of Biracialism [Issue] The Black Scholar Journal of Black Studies and Research Fall 2009 (2009-09-22) Volume 39, No. 3/4 Guest Editors: Laura Chrisman, Professor of English University of Washington Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington Ralina Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Why a biracial issue, and why now? As…

  • Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America State University of New York Press July 2007 295 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7099-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7099-2 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-7100-4; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7100-5 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. When modern…