Dispatches from the color line : the press and multiracial America
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2007
xv, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
9780791470992, 9780791471005, 0791470997, 0791471004
70267107
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"Not as black as the next guy": a peculiar case of white identity in the news
Descended from whom? defining Maria Hylton in the news
Counting race, counting controversy: multiracial identity and the 2000 census in Asian American, Black American, and dominant periodicals
After the census
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