"Postracial Resistance: Black Women and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity looks at how, in the first Black First Lady era, African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse--the media-propagated notion that race and race-base...

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1. Verfasser:	Joseph, Ralina L. (Ralina Landwehr), 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Schriftenreihe:	Critical cultural communication.
Schlagworte:	African Americans and mass media. Mass media and women. African American women > Social conditions. Noirs américains et médias. Médias et femmes. Noires américaines > Conditions sociales. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies. African American women > Social conditions African Americans and mass media Mass media and women Soziale Situation Schwarze Frau Massenmedien Noirs américains > Dans les médias. USA
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Zusammenfassung:	"Postracial Resistance: Black Women and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity looks at how, in the first Black First Lady era, African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse--the media-propagated notion that race and race-based discrimination are over, and that race and racism no longer affect the everyday lives of both Whites and people of color--in order to resist its very tenets. Black women's resistance to disenfranchisement has a long history in the U.S., including struggles for emancipation, suffrage, and de jure and de facto civil rights. In the Michelle Obama era, some minoritized subjects used a different, more individual form of resistance by negotiating through strategic ambiguity. Joseph listens to and watches Black women in three different places in media culture: she uses textual analysis to read the strategies of the Black women celebrities themselves; she uses production analysis to harvest insights from interviews with Black women writers, producers, and studio lawyers; and she uses audience ethnography to engage Black women viewers negotiating through the limited representations available to them. The book arcs from critiquing individual successes that strategic ambiguity enables and the limitations it creates for Black women celebrities, to documenting the way performing strategic ambiguity can (perhaps) unintentionally devolve into playing into racism from the perspective of Black women television professionals and younger viewers."--Website
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781479818426 1479818429