{"id":1686,"date":"2009-10-07T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:00:16","slug":"what-does-race-have-to-do-with-ugly-betty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial(?) Representations on a Television Sitcom<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Television & New Media<\/a>
\nVolume 10, Number 6<\/a> (November 2009)
\npages 521-535
\nDOI: 10.1177\/1527476409340906<\/a><\/p>\n

Jennifer Esposito<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Research, Measurement & Statistics
\nGeorgia State University, Atlanta<\/em><\/p>\n

This article examines ABC\u2019s television comedy Ugly Betty<\/a><\/em>, in particular one episode that explores race-based affirmative action decisions and quotas, to argue that race and racial categories are ever more present in our society and that they need to be. Asserting how and in what ways race “matters” is important in a social and political climate that often suggests race dare not speak its name. Circulating within sociology and education discourse is the notion of a “color-blind society” (meaning that we no longer see color or that the color of one\u2019s skin will not determine his or her life chances).\u00a0 This idea has been has been recently redefined by the media as “postracial” (meaning that we have moved beyond race and that race no longer structures our thinking or our actions). Either discourse silences talk of racial privilege and disadvantage. \u00a0As a discursive racial project, the Ugly Betty<\/em> text helps reify notions of race and difference.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial(?) Representations on a Television Sitcom Television & New Media Volume 10, Number 6 (November 2009) pages 521-535 DOI: 10.1177\/1527476409340906 Jennifer Esposito, Associate Professor of Research, Measurement & Statistics Georgia State University, Atlanta This article examines ABC\u2019s television comedy Ugly Betty, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,20],"tags":[232,14505,231],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-usa","tag-jennifer-esposito","tag-television-new-media","tag-ugly-betty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","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=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}