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  • The Colorblind Screen

    Television in Post-Racial America

    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 ... Read more

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  • Critical Race Theory and the American Media

    Series series Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
    Critical Race Theory and the American Media analyzes the widespread circulation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) within academic and popular discourses and its relationship to media studies.Undertaking a two-tiered analysis of CRT and media studies, this volume showcases the wide range of media analyses conducted by a diversity of researchers that utilize CRT as a methodological and theoretical ... Read more

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  • Violence in the Films of Stephen King

    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canonto his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence continues to play as both the level of violence and the gendered depictions of violence have evolved, ... Read more

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  • White Supremacy and the American Media

    Series series Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
    This volume examines the ways in which the media, including film, television, social media, and gaming, has constructed and sustained a narrative of white supremacy that has entered mainstream American discourse.With chapters by today’s preeminent critical race scholars, the book looks in particular at the ways media institutions have circulated white supremacist ideology across a wide range of ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Colorblindness

    Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema

    Edited by Sarah E. Turner, Sarah Nilsen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema and the ways in which these depictions all too often promulgate an important racial ideology: the myth of colorblindness. Colorblindness is a discursive framework employed by mainstream, neoliberal media to celebrate a multicultural society while simultaneously disregarding its systemic and institutionalized racism. ... Read more

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  • The Colorblind Screen

    Television in Post-Racial America

    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 ... Read more

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  • The Art of Protest

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    How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy

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    The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes

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