{"id":35842,"date":"2014-11-09T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35842"},"modified":"2014-11-09T17:42:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:42:13","slug":"the-post-racial-mystique-media-and-race-in-the-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35842","title":{"rendered":"The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/book-details.aspx?bookId=11763\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\" target=\"_blank\">New York University Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2014<br \/>\n256 pages<br \/>\n9 halftones and 7 tables<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780814762899<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 9780814770603<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comm.umn.edu\/faculty\/profile.php?UID=squir050\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Catherine R. Squires<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Communication Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/book-details.aspx?bookId=11763\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nyuconnexus.seisan.com\/uploads\/products\/9780814770603\/9780814770603_Full.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about race\u2014from celebrations of the inauguration of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When faced with fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks and Latinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has erupted in the last decade: What does being post-racial mean?<\/p>\n<p><em>The Post-Racial Mystique<\/em> explores how a variety of media\u2014the news, network television, and online, independent media\u2014debate, define and deploy the term \u201cpost-racial\u201d in their representations of American politics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media\u2014from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media\u2014Catherine Squires draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America. She reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S. history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, and inventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulate different ways of responding to race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,8413,8,17,26,394,20],"tags":[1526,1981,962,707],"class_list":["post-35842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-catherine-r-squires","tag-catherine-squires","tag-new-york-university-press","tag-nyu-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35842","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=35842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}