Colorblind Screen, The : : Television in Post-Racial America / / Sarah E. Turner; ed. by Sarah Nilsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Turner, Sarah E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Alsultany, Evelyn,; Ashe, Austin,; Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo,; Davé, Shilpa,; Doane, Ashley ("Woody"),; Hazelwood, Bruce Lee,; Huh, Jinny,; Ibrahim, Dina,; King, C. Richard,; Kretsedemas, Philip A.,; Leonard, David J.,; Mukherjee, Roopali,; Nilsen, Sarah,; Peck, Janice,; Turner, Sarah E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Nilsen, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; PART I: THEORIES OF COLORBLINDNESS --; 1. Shades of Colorblindness --; 2. Rhyme and Reason --; 3. The End of Racism? --; PART II: ICONS OF POST-RACIAL AMERICA --; 4. Oprah Winfrey --; 5. The Race Denial Card --; 6. Representations of Arabs and Muslims in Post-9/11 Television Dramas --; 7. Maybe Brown People Aren't So Scary If They're Funny --; PART III: REINSCRIBING WHITENESS --; 8. "Some People Just Hide in Plain Sight" --; 9. Watching TV with White Supremacists --; 10. BBFFs --; PART IV: POST-RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS --; 11. Matchmakers and Cultural Compatibility --; 12. Mainstreaming Latina Identity --; 13. Race in Progress, No Passing Zone --; About the Contributors --; Index
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• ISBN: 9781479893331; 9783110728996
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sarah E. Turner; ed. by Sarah Nilsen.

The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many therealization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer adefining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a"colorblind" racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals ofintegration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality thisattitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privilegesby denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalizedracism.In The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examinetelevision's role as the major discursive medium in the articulation andcontestation of racialized identities in the United States. While the dominantmode of televisual racialization has shifted to a "colorblind" ideology thatforegrounds racial differences in order to celebrate multiculturalassimilation, the volume investigates how this practice denies the significantsocial, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue todefine race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as PresidentObama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in whichrace is read by television audiences and fans. Other essays focus on how visualconstructions of race in dramas like 24, Sleeper Cell, and The Wantedcontinue to conflate Arab and Muslim identities in post-9/11 television. Thevolume offers an important intervention in the study of the televisualrepresentation of race, engaging with multiple aspects of the mythologiesdeveloping around notions of a "post-racial" America and the duplicitousdiscursive rationale offered by the ideology of colorblindness.