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The colorblind screen : television in post-racial America

Title
The colorblind screen : television in post-racial America / edited by Sarah Nilsen and Sarah E. Turner.
Publication
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Nilsen, Sarah
  • Turner, Sarah E.
Description
vi, 357 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Theories of colorblindness -- Shades of colorblindness: rethinking racial ideology in the United States / Ashley Doane -- Rhyme and reason: "post-race" and the politics of colorblind racism / Roopali Mukherjee -- The end of racism? colorblind racism and popular media / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Austin Ashe -- Icons of post-racial America. Oprah Winfrey: cultural icon of mainstream (white) America / Janice Peck -- The race denial card: the NBA lockout, Lebron James, and the politics of new racism / David J. Leonard and Bruce Lee Hazelwood -- Representations of Arabs and Muslims in post-9/11 television dramas / Evelyn Alsultany -- Maybe brown people aren't so scary if they're funny: audience readings of Arabs and Muslims on cable television comedies / Dina Ibrahim -- Reinscribing whiteness. "Some people just hide in plain sight?" historicizing racism in Mad men / Sarah Nilsen -- Watching tv with white supremacists: a more complex view of the colorblind screen / Richard King -- BBFFs: interracial friendships in a post-racial world / Sarah E. Turner -- Post-racial relationships. Matchmakers and cultural compatibility: arranged marriage, South Asians, and racial narratives on American television / Shilpa Dav -- Mainstreaming Latina identity: culture-blind and colorblind themes in viewer interpretations of Ugly Betty / Philip A. Kretsedemas -- Race in progress, no passing zone: Battlestar Galactica, colorblindness, and the maintenance of racial order / Jinny Huh.
Call Number
Sc E 14-1273
ISBN
  • 9781479809769 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1479809764 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781479891535 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1479891533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2013043414
  • 40023526186
OCLC
863195369
Title
The colorblind screen : television in post-racial America / edited by Sarah Nilsen and Sarah E. Turner.
Publisher
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Nilsen, Sarah, editor.
Turner, Sarah E., editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40023526186
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-1273
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