The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America

✍ Scribed by Nilsen, Sarah;Turner, Sarah E

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Year: 2016;2014
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this volume, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction Sarah Nilsen and Sarah E. TurnerPart I: Theories of Colorblindness1. Shades of ColorblindnessAshley ("Woody") Doane 2. Rhyme and ReasonRoopali Mukherjee3. The End of Racism? Colorblind Racism and Popular Media Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Austin AshePart II: Icons of Post-Racial America4. Oprah Winfrey5. The Race Denial CardDavid J. Leonard and Bruce Lee Hazelwood 6. Representations of Arabs and Muslims in Post-9/11 Television DramasEvelyn Alsultany7. Maybe Brown People Aren't So Scary If They're Funny ComediesDina IbrahimPart III: Reinscribing Whiteness8. "Some People Just Hide in Plain Sight"Sarah Nilsen9. Watching TV with White SupremacistsC. Richard King10. BBFFsPart IV: Post-Racial Relationships11. Matchmakers and Cultural CompatibilityShilpa Dave12. Mainstreaming Latina IdentityPhilip A. Kretsedemas13. Race in Progress, No Passing ZoneJinny Huh About the Contributors Index

✦ Subjects

Minorities on television;Race relations on television;Racism on television;Television broadcasting--Social aspects;Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States;Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States;Television broadcasting -- Social aspects;United States