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Dispatches From The Color Line eBook

The Press And Multiracial America

by Catherine R. Squires
language: english
Publisher: State University of New York Press, July of 2007 ‧
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Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities.

When modern news media choose to focus attention on people of multiracial descent, how does this fit with broader contemporary and historical racial discourses? Do these news narratives complicate common understandings of race and race relations? Dispatches from the Color Line explores these issues by examining contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. Catherine R. Squires looks at how journalists utilize information from many sources-including politicians, bureaucrats, activists, scholars, demographers, and marketers-to link multiracial identity to particular racial norms, policy preferences, and cultural trends. She considers individuals who were accused (rightly or wrongly) of misrepresenting their racial identity to the public for personal gain, and also compares the new racial categories of Census 2000 as reported in Black owned, Asian American owned, and mainstream newspapers. These comparisons reveal how a new racial group is framed in mass media, and how different media sources reinforce or challenge long-standing assumptions about racial identity and belonging in the United States.

Dispatches From The Color Line

The Press And Multiracial America

by Catherine R. Squires

Property Description
ISBN: 9780791480052
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date: July of 2007
Language: English
Pages: 295
Format: eBook
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Collection: Suny Series, Negotiating Identity: Discourses, Politics, Processes, And Praxes
Categories: eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9780791480052
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