{"id":7371,"date":"2010-05-26T02:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T02:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2010-09-29T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T07:08:56","slug":"book-review-dispatches-from-the-color-line-the-press-and-multiracial-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7371","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/aejmc.org\/topics\/index.php?s=QUEENIE+A.+BYARS\" target=\"_blank\">Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aejmc.org\/topics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Topics in Journalism and Mass Communication<\/a><br \/>\n2010-05-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\/faculty-staff-advertising-pr-faculty\/byars-queenie\" target=\"_blank\">Queenie A. Byars<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3869\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America<\/a><\/em>. Catherine R. Squires. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>Dispatches from the Color Line<\/em> was published, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> was still\u00a0 the junior senator from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois<\/a> 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\u2019s joking aside, the October 2009 case of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comm.umn.edu\/faculty\/profile.php?UID=squir050\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine R. Squires<\/a>\u00a0is the Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarly work in <em>Dispatches from the Color Line<\/em> offers serious discourse on the media\u2019s role in framing the identity of multiracial people. She uses case study analysis to examine this issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/aejmc.org\/topics\/index.php?s=QUEENIE+A.+BYARS\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America Hot Topics in Journalism and Mass Communication 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,6,26,394,20],"tags":[1526,1981,3061,3059,3060],"class_list":["post-7371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-catherine-r-squires","tag-catherine-squires","tag-hot-topics-in-journalism-and-mass-communication","tag-queenie-a-byars","tag-queenie-byars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371","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=7371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}