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Contemporary Representations of Race : = Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contemporary Representations of Race :/
Reminder of title:	Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment.
Author:	French, Nina Casetra.
Description:	1 online resource (161 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	Journalism. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355276688

Contemporary Representations of Race : = Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment.
French, Nina Casetra.

Contemporary Representations of Race :Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment. - 1 online resource (161 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas A&M University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines ways in which the myth of meritocracy, notions of America as post-racial, and instances of colorisms are articulated through CNN (Cable News Network) during the rise of then-Senator Barack Obama's bid for President of the United States in 2008. For White and middle-class groups, Obama's candidacy seemingly advanced their mainstream American society's lift-yourself-by-your- bootstraps/no-excuses values. I consider that CNN's Black in America (2008) series was released during a time in which many Americans detrimentally perceived Obama's nomination as an accurate measurement of how far removed America is from its race problem. While using a framing analysis to deconstruct its two episodes ("The Black Man" and "The Black Woman and Family"), I draw attention to how stereotypes of blackness pervade news media -- a media genre often construed as an objective platform.

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

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355276688Subjects--Topical Terms:

659797
Journalism.
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554714
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