Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity
Ralina L. Joseph, "Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity "
English | ISBN: 1479862827 | 2018 | 280 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1479862827 | 2018 | 280 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association
How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond
From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called “racists”? Or respond to racism in code only to face accusations of selling out? Postracial Resistance explores how African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences employ postracial discourse―the notion that race and race-based discrimination are over and no longer affect people’s everyday lives―to refute postracialism itself. In a world where they’re often written off as stereotypical “Angry Black Women,” Joseph offers that some Black women in media use “strategic ambiguity,” deploying the failures of post-racial discourse to name racism and thus resist it.
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