Walter Earl Fluker
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462005
- eISBN:
- 9781626745094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462005.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter proposes a reconfigured Black Theology based on the contemporary context of the Black Church in the US in a contested post-racial, post-American world. In that context, Black churches ...
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This chapter proposes a reconfigured Black Theology based on the contemporary context of the Black Church in the US in a contested post-racial, post-American world. In that context, Black churches are besieged by the “cultural hauntings” of race, in all of its shifting shapes and reinventions. This reference to shape-shifting is a form of critical signification on Black Church traditions. Historically, the Black Church has taken its metaphors, its parody and transformation of Western stories and ideas too literally and has mistaken these rhetorical devices for preordained things, essences. Shape-shifting is a form of postmodern self-reflexive critique of all signs which claim to be Absolute, including race, blackness, and theological metaphors. The chapter recommends, therefore, that the Black Church remain open to revisability of language and remember its own tradition of shape-shifting, signifying, reinterpreting in preaching, liturgy, and playing on words.Less
This chapter proposes a reconfigured Black Theology based on the contemporary context of the Black Church in the US in a contested post-racial, post-American world. In that context, Black churches are besieged by the “cultural hauntings” of race, in all of its shifting shapes and reinventions. This reference to shape-shifting is a form of critical signification on Black Church traditions. Historically, the Black Church has taken its metaphors, its parody and transformation of Western stories and ideas too literally and has mistaken these rhetorical devices for preordained things, essences. Shape-shifting is a form of postmodern self-reflexive critique of all signs which claim to be Absolute, including race, blackness, and theological metaphors. The chapter recommends, therefore, that the Black Church remain open to revisability of language and remember its own tradition of shape-shifting, signifying, reinterpreting in preaching, liturgy, and playing on words.
William Ackah
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462005
- eISBN:
- 9781626745094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462005.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter compares and contrasts texts by Allan Boesak and Howard Thurman, key theological figures of the anti-apartheid and civil rights eras in South Africa and the United States, to determine ...
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This chapter compares and contrasts texts by Allan Boesak and Howard Thurman, key theological figures of the anti-apartheid and civil rights eras in South Africa and the United States, to determine what relevance their writings on quests for black unity on transnational lines, relations with whites, and a vision for a better society have for the contested post-racial environment of the twenty first century. It is argued that their insights still hold great value as the legacy of the conditions and treatment of black people that resulted in anti-apartheid and civil rights activism still lives on today and that their ideas need to be broadened and applied to other issues of social justice that impact blacks and other marginalized groups across the globe. Therefore, transatlantic unity needs to be concerned about gender, sexuality, disability, and poverty alongside the struggle for racial equality and empowerment.Less
This chapter compares and contrasts texts by Allan Boesak and Howard Thurman, key theological figures of the anti-apartheid and civil rights eras in South Africa and the United States, to determine what relevance their writings on quests for black unity on transnational lines, relations with whites, and a vision for a better society have for the contested post-racial environment of the twenty first century. It is argued that their insights still hold great value as the legacy of the conditions and treatment of black people that resulted in anti-apartheid and civil rights activism still lives on today and that their ideas need to be broadened and applied to other issues of social justice that impact blacks and other marginalized groups across the globe. Therefore, transatlantic unity needs to be concerned about gender, sexuality, disability, and poverty alongside the struggle for racial equality and empowerment.
Corey D. Fields
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520291898
- eISBN:
- 9780520965508
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520291898.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
What do people think of when they hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, ...
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What do people think of when they hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party? This book considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race and political behavior in the purported “post-racial” context of US politics. Drawing on vivid first-person accounts, the book sheds light on the different ways black identity structures African Americans' membership in the Republican Party. Moving past rhetoric and politics, the everyday people working to reconcile their commitment to black identity with their belief in Republican principles can be seen. And at the end, the importance of understanding both the meanings African Americans attach to racial identity and the political contexts in which those meanings are developed and expressed is illuminated.Less
What do people think of when they hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party? This book considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race and political behavior in the purported “post-racial” context of US politics. Drawing on vivid first-person accounts, the book sheds light on the different ways black identity structures African Americans' membership in the Republican Party. Moving past rhetoric and politics, the everyday people working to reconcile their commitment to black identity with their belief in Republican principles can be seen. And at the end, the importance of understanding both the meanings African Americans attach to racial identity and the political contexts in which those meanings are developed and expressed is illuminated.
Catherine R. Squires
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814762899
- eISBN:
- 9780814770788
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814762899.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inauguration of the first Black ...
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Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inauguration of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When faced with fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks and Latinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has erupted in the last decade: What does being post-racial mean? This book explores how a variety of media—the news, network television, and online, independent media—debate, define and deploy the term “post-racial” in their representations of American politics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media—from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media—the book draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America. The book reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S. history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, and inventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulate different ways of responding to race.Less
Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inauguration of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When faced with fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks and Latinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has erupted in the last decade: What does being post-racial mean? This book explores how a variety of media—the news, network television, and online, independent media—debate, define and deploy the term “post-racial” in their representations of American politics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media—from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media—the book draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America. The book reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S. history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, and inventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulate different ways of responding to race.
Leilani Nishime
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038075
- eISBN:
- 9780252095344
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038075.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, tracing the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian ...
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This first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, tracing the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. The book's perceptive readings of popular media—movies, television shows, magazine articles, and artwork—indicate how and why the viewing public often fails to identify multiracial Asian Americans. Using actor Keanu Reeves, the Matrix trilogy, and golfer Tiger Woods as examples, the book suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics. Also considering alternative images such as reality TV star Kimora Lee Simmons, the television show Battlestar Galactica, and the artwork of Kip Fulbeck, this incisive study offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.Less
This first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, tracing the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. The book's perceptive readings of popular media—movies, television shows, magazine articles, and artwork—indicate how and why the viewing public often fails to identify multiracial Asian Americans. Using actor Keanu Reeves, the Matrix trilogy, and golfer Tiger Woods as examples, the book suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics. Also considering alternative images such as reality TV star Kimora Lee Simmons, the television show Battlestar Galactica, and the artwork of Kip Fulbeck, this incisive study offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.
Sarah Nilsen and Sarah E. Turner (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479809769
- eISBN:
- 9781479893331
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479809769.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many ...
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The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized racism. This book examines 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 book investigates how this practice denies the significant social, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to define race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as President Obama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in which race is read by television audiences and fans. Other chapters focus on how visual constructions of race in dramas like Sleeper Cell, and The Wanted continue to conflate Arab and Muslim identities in post-9/11 television. The book offers an important intervention in the study of the televisual representation of race, engaging with multiple aspects of the mythologies developing around notions of a “post-racial” America and the duplicitous discursive rationale offered by the ideology of colorblindness.Less
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized racism. This book examines 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 book investigates how this practice denies the significant social, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to define race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as President Obama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in which race is read by television audiences and fans. Other chapters focus on how visual constructions of race in dramas like Sleeper Cell, and The Wanted continue to conflate Arab and Muslim identities in post-9/11 television. The book offers an important intervention in the study of the televisual representation of race, engaging with multiple aspects of the mythologies developing around notions of a “post-racial” America and the duplicitous discursive rationale offered by the ideology of colorblindness.
Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814762226
- eISBN:
- 9780814765296
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814762226.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the United States is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, ...
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According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the United States 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. This book seeks to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. The chapters challenge 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, the book reveals complex intersections and constructions of racialized bodies and discourses, critiquing race in innovative and exciting ways. The book seeks not only to understand and navigate a world fraught with racism, but to change it, one word at a time.Less
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the United States 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. This book seeks to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. The chapters challenge 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, the book reveals complex intersections and constructions of racialized bodies and discourses, critiquing race in innovative and exciting ways. The book seeks not only to understand and navigate a world fraught with racism, but to change it, one word at a time.
Gregory Parks and Matthew Hughey (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199735204
- eISBN:
- 9780199894581
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735204.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Since the milestone election of Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008, some have wondered whether the United States can now be considered a post-racial nation. According to this book's ...
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Since the milestone election of Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008, some have wondered whether the United States can now be considered a post-racial nation. According to this book's contributors, a more nuanced and contemporary analysis and measurement of racial attitudes undercuts this assumption. Despite the election of the first black President and rise of his family as perhaps the most widely recognized family in the world, race remains a salient issue—particularly in the United States. Looking beyond public behaviors and how people describe their own attitudes, the contributors draw from the latest research to show how, despite the Obama family's rapid rise to national prominence, many Americans continue to harbor unconscious, anti-black biases. Nonetheless, the prominence of the Obamas on the world stage and the image they project may hasten the day when America is indeed post-racial, even at the implicit level.Less
Since the milestone election of Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008, some have wondered whether the United States can now be considered a post-racial nation. According to this book's contributors, a more nuanced and contemporary analysis and measurement of racial attitudes undercuts this assumption. Despite the election of the first black President and rise of his family as perhaps the most widely recognized family in the world, race remains a salient issue—particularly in the United States. Looking beyond public behaviors and how people describe their own attitudes, the contributors draw from the latest research to show how, despite the Obama family's rapid rise to national prominence, many Americans continue to harbor unconscious, anti-black biases. Nonetheless, the prominence of the Obamas on the world stage and the image they project may hasten the day when America is indeed post-racial, even at the implicit level.
Hsuan L. Hsu
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479880416
- eISBN:
- 9781479843404
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479880416.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This book has explored Mark Twain's accounts of structural racism and processes of comparative racialization across geographical regions and scales, linking the antebellum South with the multiracial ...
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This book has explored Mark Twain's accounts of structural racism and processes of comparative racialization across geographical regions and scales, linking the antebellum South with the multiracial spaces of the U.S. West and the imperial contexts of the “American Pacific.” From Ah Sin and Pudd'nhead Wilson to Huckleberry Finn, Those Extraordinary Twins, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Twain's career-long archive of writings about U.S. relations with Asia offer some of his era's most complex literary accounts of anti-Chinese discrimination and provide important points of comparison with his more familiar critiques of antiblack racism and European colonialism. They also illuminate issues of structural inequality that extend through the eras of Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and multiculturalism into the present and future predicaments of a nation that is at once racially stratified and immersed in the rhetoric of “post-racial” racism.Less
This book has explored Mark Twain's accounts of structural racism and processes of comparative racialization across geographical regions and scales, linking the antebellum South with the multiracial spaces of the U.S. West and the imperial contexts of the “American Pacific.” From Ah Sin and Pudd'nhead Wilson to Huckleberry Finn, Those Extraordinary Twins, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Twain's career-long archive of writings about U.S. relations with Asia offer some of his era's most complex literary accounts of anti-Chinese discrimination and provide important points of comparison with his more familiar critiques of antiblack racism and European colonialism. They also illuminate issues of structural inequality that extend through the eras of Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and multiculturalism into the present and future predicaments of a nation that is at once racially stratified and immersed in the rhetoric of “post-racial” racism.
Matthew W. Hughey
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199735204
- eISBN:
- 9780199894581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735204.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
An event barely conceivable just a few years ago, the meteoric rise of the Obamas to the White House is a watershed moment. The First Family and reactions to them are hailed as evidence of both a ...
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An event barely conceivable just a few years ago, the meteoric rise of the Obamas to the White House is a watershed moment. The First Family and reactions to them are hailed as evidence of both a “Post-Racial America” and a “Racist America.” Taking this debate as a starting point, this chapter first surveys the common discourse by which people admit racial inequality while minimalizing its effects and social causes. Second, it chronicles the zigzag path of racial progress through key moments of legal battles. Third, it provides a cursory view of five key social arenas: attitudes, housing, education, wealth, and incarceration. While some of the data is mixed, this chapter unapologetically demonstrates that despite progress in the Age of Obama, racial inequality is neither natural nor predestined, but remains well-entrenched and tethered to the promotion of white supremacy.Less
An event barely conceivable just a few years ago, the meteoric rise of the Obamas to the White House is a watershed moment. The First Family and reactions to them are hailed as evidence of both a “Post-Racial America” and a “Racist America.” Taking this debate as a starting point, this chapter first surveys the common discourse by which people admit racial inequality while minimalizing its effects and social causes. Second, it chronicles the zigzag path of racial progress through key moments of legal battles. Third, it provides a cursory view of five key social arenas: attitudes, housing, education, wealth, and incarceration. While some of the data is mixed, this chapter unapologetically demonstrates that despite progress in the Age of Obama, racial inequality is neither natural nor predestined, but remains well-entrenched and tethered to the promotion of white supremacy.
Andrew J. Jolivette
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781447301011
- eISBN:
- 9781447307228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301011.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
An examination of mixed-race identity within the context of religious, ethnic, racial and media representations and discourse during the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign.
An examination of mixed-race identity within the context of religious, ethnic, racial and media representations and discourse during the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign.
Darryl G. Barthé
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781447301011
- eISBN:
- 9781447307228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301011.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
A historical overview of U.S. racial policies and practices ranging from segregation, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights battle to end racial caste systems and the subordinate status of African ...
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A historical overview of U.S. racial policies and practices ranging from segregation, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights battle to end racial caste systems and the subordinate status of African Americans. Provides critical analysis of Barack Obama's status in a “Black caste” despite his biracial background.Less
A historical overview of U.S. racial policies and practices ranging from segregation, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights battle to end racial caste systems and the subordinate status of African Americans. Provides critical analysis of Barack Obama's status in a “Black caste” despite his biracial background.
Wei Ming Dariotis
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781447301011
- eISBN:
- 9781447307228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301011.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Mixed-race kin-aesthetics forces us to consider how family, the public sphere, and ideology intersect to dictate not only how others perceive us, but ultimately how we perceive ourselves in an ...
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Mixed-race kin-aesthetics forces us to consider how family, the public sphere, and ideology intersect to dictate not only how others perceive us, but ultimately how we perceive ourselves in an increasingly multiracial nation.Less
Mixed-race kin-aesthetics forces us to consider how family, the public sphere, and ideology intersect to dictate not only how others perceive us, but ultimately how we perceive ourselves in an increasingly multiracial nation.
Malisa Kurtz
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496811523
- eISBN:
- 9781496811561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496811523.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Malisa Kurtz, in “‘Race as Technology’ and the Asian Body in The Bohr Maker and Salt Fish Girl,” analyzes the relationships among race, biotechnologies, and genomics in Linda Nagata’s The Bohr Maker ...
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Malisa Kurtz, in “‘Race as Technology’ and the Asian Body in The Bohr Maker and Salt Fish Girl,” analyzes the relationships among race, biotechnologies, and genomics in Linda Nagata’s The Bohr Maker (1995) and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl (2002). Asian characters in The Bohr Maker and Salt Fish Girl are differentiated by their genetics rather than visible physical traits, and both novels question how genomic research might lead to the re-emergence of racist assumptions about biological “destiny.” By specifically using techno-Orientalist tropes, both novels reveal the ways in which the bodies of people of color are doubly racialized in science fiction, reduced to instruments of both science and narrative exoticism.Less
Malisa Kurtz, in “‘Race as Technology’ and the Asian Body in The Bohr Maker and Salt Fish Girl,” analyzes the relationships among race, biotechnologies, and genomics in Linda Nagata’s The Bohr Maker (1995) and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl (2002). Asian characters in The Bohr Maker and Salt Fish Girl are differentiated by their genetics rather than visible physical traits, and both novels question how genomic research might lead to the re-emergence of racist assumptions about biological “destiny.” By specifically using techno-Orientalist tropes, both novels reveal the ways in which the bodies of people of color are doubly racialized in science fiction, reduced to instruments of both science and narrative exoticism.
Haerin Shin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496811523
- eISBN:
- 9781496811561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496811523.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Haerin (Helen) Shin, in “Engineering the Techno-Orient: The Hyperrealization of Post-Racial Politics in Cloud Atlas,” considers visions of technologized Asia and Asian bodies in the film Cloud Atlas ...
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Haerin (Helen) Shin, in “Engineering the Techno-Orient: The Hyperrealization of Post-Racial Politics in Cloud Atlas,” considers visions of technologized Asia and Asian bodies in the film Cloud Atlas (2012), and to a lesser extent the Philips TV commercial Robotskin (2007). Shin focuses on specific scenes that attempt to visualize the motif of crossing but instead deteriorate into problematic instances of conflation. Shin explores the appropriative use of stereotypes in transmedia augmentations related to techno-Orientalism, post-racialist politics, and Baudrillardan simulacra.Less
Haerin (Helen) Shin, in “Engineering the Techno-Orient: The Hyperrealization of Post-Racial Politics in Cloud Atlas,” considers visions of technologized Asia and Asian bodies in the film Cloud Atlas (2012), and to a lesser extent the Philips TV commercial Robotskin (2007). Shin focuses on specific scenes that attempt to visualize the motif of crossing but instead deteriorate into problematic instances of conflation. Shin explores the appropriative use of stereotypes in transmedia augmentations related to techno-Orientalism, post-racialist politics, and Baudrillardan simulacra.
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- August 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190265960
- eISBN:
- 9780190939403
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190265960.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Beginning with Barry Goldwater’s Operation Dixie in 1964, the Republican Party targeted disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the ...
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Beginning with Barry Goldwater’s Operation Dixie in 1964, the Republican Party targeted disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the GOP, the party capitalized on white racial angst that threatened southern white control. However—and this is critical—that decision was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what is called here the “Long Southern Strategy.” In the wake of Second-Wave Feminism, the GOP dropped the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform and promoted traditional gender roles in an effort to appeal to anti-feminist white southerners, and it politicized evangelical fundamentalist Christianity as represented by the Southern Baptist Convention. All three of those decisions were necessary for the South to turn from blue to red. To make inroads in the South, however, GOP politicians not only had to take these positions, but they also had to sell them with a southern “accent.” Republicans had to mirror southern white culture by emphasizing an “us vs. them” outlook, preaching absolutes, accusing the media of bias, prioritizing identity over the economy, depicting one’s way of life as under attack, encouraging defensiveness toward social changes, and championing a politics of vengeance. Over time, that made the party southern, not in terms of place, but in its vision, in its demands, in its rhetoric, and in its spirit. In doing so, it nationalized southern white identity, and that has changed American politics.Less
Beginning with Barry Goldwater’s Operation Dixie in 1964, the Republican Party targeted disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the GOP, the party capitalized on white racial angst that threatened southern white control. However—and this is critical—that decision was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what is called here the “Long Southern Strategy.” In the wake of Second-Wave Feminism, the GOP dropped the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform and promoted traditional gender roles in an effort to appeal to anti-feminist white southerners, and it politicized evangelical fundamentalist Christianity as represented by the Southern Baptist Convention. All three of those decisions were necessary for the South to turn from blue to red. To make inroads in the South, however, GOP politicians not only had to take these positions, but they also had to sell them with a southern “accent.” Republicans had to mirror southern white culture by emphasizing an “us vs. them” outlook, preaching absolutes, accusing the media of bias, prioritizing identity over the economy, depicting one’s way of life as under attack, encouraging defensiveness toward social changes, and championing a politics of vengeance. Over time, that made the party southern, not in terms of place, but in its vision, in its demands, in its rhetoric, and in its spirit. In doing so, it nationalized southern white identity, and that has changed American politics.
Matthew Pratt Guterl
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479844630
- eISBN:
- 9781479828210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479844630.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
The first chapter acknowledges that structures matter. Matthew Pratt Guterl discusses the practice of racial passing in the supposed post-racial age, dwelling on what it tells us about structures—and ...
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The first chapter acknowledges that structures matter. Matthew Pratt Guterl discusses the practice of racial passing in the supposed post-racial age, dwelling on what it tells us about structures—and about racial reconciliation. Guterl takes up the story of Rachel Dolezal—with the benefit of a year’s reflection—and her “trans-racial” subject position. He reads it, as she did, through the experiences of Caitlyn Jenner, the trans-gender sports figure. He asks what it means to celebrate racial self-fashioning as if it were akin to gender transitioning and thinks about the broader cultural responses to Dolezal’s story of passing and subterfuge.Less
The first chapter acknowledges that structures matter. Matthew Pratt Guterl discusses the practice of racial passing in the supposed post-racial age, dwelling on what it tells us about structures—and about racial reconciliation. Guterl takes up the story of Rachel Dolezal—with the benefit of a year’s reflection—and her “trans-racial” subject position. He reads it, as she did, through the experiences of Caitlyn Jenner, the trans-gender sports figure. He asks what it means to celebrate racial self-fashioning as if it were akin to gender transitioning and thinks about the broader cultural responses to Dolezal’s story of passing and subterfuge.
Joseph Vogel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041747
- eISBN:
- 9780252050411
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041747.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter reads Baldwin’s award-winning essay, “Atlanta: The Evidence of Things Not Seen” and elaborated final nonfiction book, TheEvidence of Things Not Seen, as a corrective to sensationalist ...
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This chapter reads Baldwin’s award-winning essay, “Atlanta: The Evidence of Things Not Seen” and elaborated final nonfiction book, TheEvidence of Things Not Seen, as a corrective to sensationalist media accounts of the Atlanta child murders and simplistic gloss-overs of the New South. This chapter argues that while Evidence is perhaps Baldwin’s most neglected work (both upon publication and today), it offers one of the most penetrating examinations of the paradoxes, hypocrisies, and illusions of the Reagan era. It also presciently anticipates the “post-racial” violence that continues in the Obama era, from Trayvon Martin to Mike Brown, from Sandra Bland to the Charleston Nine.Less
This chapter reads Baldwin’s award-winning essay, “Atlanta: The Evidence of Things Not Seen” and elaborated final nonfiction book, TheEvidence of Things Not Seen, as a corrective to sensationalist media accounts of the Atlanta child murders and simplistic gloss-overs of the New South. This chapter argues that while Evidence is perhaps Baldwin’s most neglected work (both upon publication and today), it offers one of the most penetrating examinations of the paradoxes, hypocrisies, and illusions of the Reagan era. It also presciently anticipates the “post-racial” violence that continues in the Obama era, from Trayvon Martin to Mike Brown, from Sandra Bland to the Charleston Nine.
Bryan Crable
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496806796
- eISBN:
- 9781496806833
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496806796.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
Bryan Crable’s “Invisible Man in the Age of Obama: Ellison on (Color) Blindness, Visibility, and the Hopes for a Postracial America” offers a bold view of the implications of Ellison’s work on the ...
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Bryan Crable’s “Invisible Man in the Age of Obama: Ellison on (Color) Blindness, Visibility, and the Hopes for a Postracial America” offers a bold view of the implications of Ellison’s work on the enduring American questions of race and color. Crable takes up the discourse of Barack Obama’s 2011 re-election campaign to see how it reveals the influence of Ellison’s analysis of appearance, of visibility and invisibility. In the Age of Obama, does the problem of the color line still persist? Have we entered into a post-racial America? By pursuing the crucial connections between these two paradigmatic American writers, Crable concludes, “The discourse surrounding Obama’s first term (and his quest for re-election) simply reminds us that Invisible Man’s work is not yet done; it remains as important for us today as it was for readers in 1952.”Less
Bryan Crable’s “Invisible Man in the Age of Obama: Ellison on (Color) Blindness, Visibility, and the Hopes for a Postracial America” offers a bold view of the implications of Ellison’s work on the enduring American questions of race and color. Crable takes up the discourse of Barack Obama’s 2011 re-election campaign to see how it reveals the influence of Ellison’s analysis of appearance, of visibility and invisibility. In the Age of Obama, does the problem of the color line still persist? Have we entered into a post-racial America? By pursuing the crucial connections between these two paradigmatic American writers, Crable concludes, “The discourse surrounding Obama’s first term (and his quest for re-election) simply reminds us that Invisible Man’s work is not yet done; it remains as important for us today as it was for readers in 1952.”
Vincent W. Lloyd
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277636
- eISBN:
- 9780823280575
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277636.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
All saints are, in a sense, post-racial. By definition, saints transcend worldly concepts and categories, but in doing so they draw on the specificity of their worldly features. During the 2008 ...
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All saints are, in a sense, post-racial. By definition, saints transcend worldly concepts and categories, but in doing so they draw on the specificity of their worldly features. During the 2008 election campaign and in the early days of his presidency, Barack Obama was represented as saintly. Was this merely a metaphor, or is there something about the theological structure of sainthood that captures Obama’s representation (and self-presentation)? By moving back and forth between analysis of Obama’s image and reflection on sainthood, this chapter attempts to move both conversations about black politics and about sainthood forward, helping us racially inflect our understanding of saints and helping us theologically deepen our understanding of the first black president.Less
All saints are, in a sense, post-racial. By definition, saints transcend worldly concepts and categories, but in doing so they draw on the specificity of their worldly features. During the 2008 election campaign and in the early days of his presidency, Barack Obama was represented as saintly. Was this merely a metaphor, or is there something about the theological structure of sainthood that captures Obama’s representation (and self-presentation)? By moving back and forth between analysis of Obama’s image and reflection on sainthood, this chapter attempts to move both conversations about black politics and about sainthood forward, helping us racially inflect our understanding of saints and helping us theologically deepen our understanding of the first black president.
