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The Colorblind Screen : Television in Post-Racial America by Turner, Sarah E., Nilsen, Sarah; Sarah E. Turner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized racism. In __The Colorblind Screen__, the contributors examine television’s role as the major discursive medium in the articulation and contestation of racialized identities in the United States. While the dominant mode of televisual racialization has shifted to a “colorblind” ideology that foregrounds racial differences in order to celebrate multicultural assimilation, the volume investigates how this practice denies the significant social, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to define race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as President Obama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in which race is read by te

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Author

Turner, Sarah E., Nilsen, Sarah; Sarah E. Turner

Publisher

New York University Press; NYU Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479809769

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Science, Sports