The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News (Routledge Transformations in Race and Media) - Softcover

Lewis, Libby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815386427 ISBN 13: 9780815386421

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book explores the written and unwritten requirements Black journalists face in their efforts to get and keep jobs in television news. Informed by interviews with journalists themselves, Lewis examines how raced Black journalists and their journalism organizations process their circumstances and choose to respond to the corporate and institutional constraints they face. She uncovers the social construction and attempted control of "Blackness" in news production and its subversion by Black journalists negotiating issues of objectivity, authority, voice, and appearance along sites of multiple differences of race, gender, and sexuality.

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About the Author

Libby Lewis is a Lecturer in African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She earned a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815386427
• ISBN 13: 9780815386421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202