{"id":14359,"date":"2011-06-22T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:35:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:35:52","slug":"%e2%80%9credemption-for-our-anguished-racial-history%e2%80%9d-race-and-the-national-narrative-in-commemorative-journalism-about-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14359","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRedemption for Our Anguished Racial History\u201d: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0196859911404604\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRedemption for Our Anguished Racial History\u201d: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jci.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Communication Inquiry<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jci.sagepub.com\/content\/35\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 35, Number 2<\/a> (April 2011)<br \/>\npages 115-133<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0196859911404604\">10.1177\/0196859911404604<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:siobahn.stiles@temple.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Siobahn Stiles<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Temple University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sctportal.temple.edu\/ps\/FacBios.asp?Detail=68\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Kitch<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Journalism<br \/>\nTemple University, Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>This article considers how race was discussed in commemorative journalism produced after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> election and inauguration by major American newspapers, magazines, and television news. A discourse analysis of these commemorative media texts reveals competing\u2014though often overlapping\u2014narratives. Some celebrated Obama\u2019s victory as a racial milestone, claiming it for African Americans past and present, yet another hurdle crossed in the continuing struggle for equality. Other commemorative texts either elided or marginalized racial issues, instead emphasizing diversity and democracy in a narrative of generalized American \u201cfreedom\u201d and unity. The narrative in each text, however, was ultimately a tale imbued with nationalist ideology, emphasizing unity and progress at the expense of discussing issues related to contemporary racial inequality in America. Overall, although the coverage of this election demonstrated some change in racial representation, the overall discourse on race in America\u2014and journalists\u2019 thematic avoidance of racial issues\u2014did not.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jci.sagepub.com\/content\/35\/2\/115.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRedemption for Our Anguished Racial History\u201d: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 35, Number 2 (April 2011) pages 115-133 DOI: 10.1177\/0196859911404604 Siobahn Stiles Temple University Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia This article considers how race was discussed in commemorative journalism produced after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1196,20],"tags":[6629,3809,6628],"class_list":["post-14359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-literary-criticism","category-usa","tag-carolyn-kitch","tag-journal-of-communication-inquiry","tag-siobahn-stiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}