The colorblind screen : television in post-racial America /
edited by Sarah Nilsen and Sarah E. Turner.
- 1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theories of colorblindness -- Shades of colorblindness: rethinking racial ideology in the United States / Ashley Doane -- Rhyme and reason: "post-race" and the politics of colorblind racism / Roopali Mukherjee -- The end of racism? colorblind racism and popular media / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Austin Ashe -- Icons of post-racial America. Oprah Winfrey: cultural icon of mainstream (white) America / Janice Peck -- The race denial card: the NBA lockout, Lebron James, and the politics of new racism / David J. Leonard and Bruce Lee Hazelwood -- Representations of Arabs and Muslims in post-9/11 television dramas / Evelyn Alsultany -- Maybe brown people aren't so scary if they're funny: audience readings of Arabs and Muslims on cable television comedies / Dina Ibrahim -- Reinscribing whiteness. "Some people just hide in plain sight?" historicizing racism in Mad men / Sarah Nilsen -- Watching tv with white supremacists: a more complex view of the colorblind screen / Richard King -- BBFFs: interracial friendships in a post-racial world / Sarah E. Turner -- Post-racial relationships. Matchmakers and cultural compatibility: arranged marriage, South Asians, and racial narratives on American television / Shilpa Dav -- Mainstreaming Latina identity: culture-blind and colorblind themes in viewer interpretations of Ugly Betty / Philip A. Kretsedemas -- Race in progress, no passing zone: Battlestar Galactica, colorblindness, and the maintenance of racial order / Jinny Huh.
9781479893331 (e-book)
Minorities on television. Race relations on television. Racism on television. Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.