{"id":30676,"date":"2013-04-27T03:58:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T03:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30676"},"modified":"2015-05-20T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:21:29","slug":"selective-amnesia-and-racial-transcendence-in-news-coverage-of-president-obamas-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30676","title":{"rendered":"Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama&#8217;s Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/00335630.2012.663499\" target=\"_blank\">Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama&#8217;s Inauguration<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rqjs20\" target=\"_blank\">Quarterly Journal of Speech<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rqjs20\/98\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 98, Issue 2<\/a>, 2012<br \/>\npages 178-202<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/00335630.2012.663499\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/00335630.2012.663499<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.butler.edu\/about\/directory\/?a=viewprofile&amp;u=khoerl\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Hoerl<\/a><\/strong>, Associate\u00a0Professor of Communication Studies<br \/>\n<em>Butler University,\u00a0 Indianapolis, Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mainstream press frequently characterized the election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> the first African American US President as the realization of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King&#8217;s<\/a> dream, thus crafting a postracial narrative of national transcendence. I argue that this routine characterization of Obama&#8217;s election functions as a site for the production of selective amnesia, a form of remembrance <strong>that routinely negates and silences those who would contest hegemonic narratives of national progress and unity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/00335630.2012.663499\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama&#8217;s Inauguration Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 98, Issue 2, 2012 pages 178-202 DOI: 10.1080\/00335630.2012.663499 Kristen Hoerl, Associate\u00a0Professor of Communication Studies Butler University,\u00a0 Indianapolis, Indiana The mainstream press frequently characterized the election of President Barack Obama the first African American US President as the realization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8413,8,20],"tags":[14545,14544],"class_list":["post-30676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kristen-hoerl","tag-quarterly-journal-of-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676","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=30676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}