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Speaking American : = Comparing Supreme Court and Hollywood racial interpretation in the early twenty -first century.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Speaking American :/
Reminder of title:	Comparing Supreme Court and Hollywood racial interpretation in the early twenty -first century.
Author:	Hawkins, Paul Henry.
Description:	1 online resource (160 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 3006.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-08A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781124123165

Speaking American : = Comparing Supreme Court and Hollywood racial interpretation in the early twenty -first century.
Hawkins, Paul Henry.

Speaking American :Comparing Supreme Court and Hollywood racial interpretation in the early twenty -first century. - 1 online resource (160 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 3006.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Apprehending that race is social, not biological, this study examines U.S. racial formation in the early twenty-first century. In particular, Hollywood and Supreme Court texts are analyzed as media for gathering, shaping and transmitting racial ideas. Representing Hollywood, the 2004 film Crash is analyzed. Representing the Supreme Court, the study examines Grutter v. Bollinger and Parents Involved v. Seattle Schools. To more fully describe how these texts reflect and then reenter a stream of social discourse, two theories are successively employed. First, Roland Barthes' theory of mythology is used to deconstruct layers of meaning in the texts. Second, Michel Foucault's theory of power is used to explain how the meaning in the text attempts to shape ideas about race in the post-civil rights era. The combination of these theories not only helps readers better understand how texts act as instruments of racial formation, it extends the field of semiological inquiry in which these theories were grounded. By applying Barthes and Foucault, this study demonstrates that both Hollywood and the Supreme Court, despite a veneer of twenty-first century racial progress, actually produce texts that seek to maintain centuries of disparate power between racial collectives.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781124123165Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179188
American history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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