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1 online resource (x, 314 pages) |
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Critical cultural communication |
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Critical cultural communication.
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| Contents |
Apocalypse : the media's framing of Black looters, shooters, and brutes in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath / Michael G. Lacy and Kathleen C. Haspel -- Tales of tragedy : strategic rhetoric in news coverage of the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres / Cynthia Willis-Chun -- N-word vs. F-word, Black vs. gay : uncovering pendejo games to recover intersections / Catherine Squires -- Quentin Tarantino in black and white / Sean Tierney -- Patrolling national identity, masking white supremacy : the Minuteman Project / Michelle A. Holling -- Control, discipline, and punish : Black masculinity and (in)visible whiteness in the NBA / Rachel Griffin and Bernadette Marie Calafell -- Declarations of independence : African American abolitionists and the struggle for racial and rhetorical self-determination / Jacqueline Bacon -- Transgressive rhetoric in deliberative democracy : the Black press / Michael Huspek -- Bling fling : commodity consumption and the politics of the 'post-racial' / Roopali Mukherjee -- The rhythm of ambition : power temporalities and the production of the call center agent in documentary film and reality television / Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Sheena Malhotra, and Kimberlee Pérez -- Inscribing racial bodies and relieving responsibility : examining the racial politics in Crash / Jamie Moshin and Ronald L. Jackson II -- Cinematic representation and cultural critique : the deracialization and denationalization of the African conflict diamond crises in Zwick's Blood diamonds / Marouf Hasian, Jr., Carol W. Anderson, and Rulon Wood -- Abstracting and de-racializing diversity : the articulation of diversity in the post-race era / Rona Tamiko Halualani |
| Summary |
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. In this groundbreaking collection edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono, scholars seek to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. An outstanding group of contributors from a range of academic backgrounds challenges traditional definitions and applications of rhetoric. From the troubling media representations of black looters after Hurricane Katrina and rhetoric in news coverage about the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres to cinematic representations of race in Crash, Blood Diamond, and Quentin Tarantino's films, these essays reveal complext intersections and constructions of racialized bodies and discourses, critiquing race in innovative and exciting ways |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States
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Racism in popular culture.
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Racism in mass media.
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Racism in motion pictures.
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Racism in sports.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Race relations
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Racism
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Racism in mass media
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Racism in motion pictures
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Racism in popular culture
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Racism in sports
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lacy, Michael G., editor.
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Ono, Kent A., 1964- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780814762363 |
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0814762360 |
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9780814765296 |
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0814765297 |
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