Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial AmericaPosted in Articles, Book/Video Reviews, New Media, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2010-05-26 02:53Z by Steven |
Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America
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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 York Press, 2007.
When Dispatches from the Color Line was published, Barack Obama was still the junior senator from Illinois and fresh from a rousing keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Fast forward to 2009 and President Barack Obama has jokingly compared his multiracial identity to that of a mixed-breed dog. Obama’s joking aside, the October 2009 case of a Louisiana justice of the peace refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple is no laughing matter, and underscores the value of this book.
Catherine R. Squires is the Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarly work in Dispatches from the Color Line offers serious discourse on the media’s role in framing the identity of multiracial people. She uses case study analysis to examine this issue…
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