{"product_id":"the-colorblind-screen-3","title":"The Colorblind Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the\u003cbr\u003e\nrealization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a\u003cbr\u003e\ndefining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a\u003cbr\u003e\n“colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of\u003cbr\u003e\nintegration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this\u003cbr\u003e\nattitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges\u003cbr\u003e\nby denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized\u003cbr\u003e\nracism.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examine\u003cbr\u003e\ntelevision’s role as the major discursive medium in the articulation and\u003cbr\u003e\ncontestation of racialized identities in the United States. While the dominant\u003cbr\u003e\nmode of televisual racialization has shifted to a “colorblind” ideology that\u003cbr\u003e\nforegrounds racial differences in order to celebrate multicultural\u003cbr\u003e\nassimilation, the volume investigates how this practice denies the significant\u003cbr\u003e\nsocial, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to\u003cbr\u003e\ndefine race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as President\u003cbr\u003e\nObama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in which\u003cbr\u003e\nrace is read by television audiences and fans. Other essays focus on how visual\u003cbr\u003e\nconstructions of race in dramas like 24, Sleeper Cell, and The Wanted\u003cbr\u003e\ncontinue to conflate Arab and Muslim identities in post-9\/11 television. The\u003cbr\u003e\nvolume offers an important intervention in the study of the televisual\u003cbr\u003e\nrepresentation of race, engaging with multiple aspects of the mythologies\u003cbr\u003e\ndeveloping around notions of a “post-racial” America and the duplicitous\u003cbr\u003e\ndiscursive rationale offered by the ideology of colorblindness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Sarah E. Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573454045366,"sku":"9781479893331","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781479893331.jpg?v=1712136556","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-colorblind-screen-3","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}