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<p>Despite claims from<br>pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem<br>to keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inauguration<br>of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police<br>profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When faced<br>with fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks and<br>Latinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has erupted<br>in the last decade: What does being post-racial mean?<br><br>The Post-Racial Mystique explores<br>how a variety of media—the news, network television, and online, independent media—debate,<br>define and deploy the term “post-racial” in their representations of American<br>politics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media—from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience<br>interactions on social media—Catherine Squires draws upon a variety of<br>disciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, and<br>cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing<br>post-racial America. She reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S.<br>history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, and<br>inventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulate<br>different ways of responding to race.</p>