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

Lewis, Libby

ISBN 10: 1138812412 / ISBN 13: 9781138812413

Published by Routledge, 2015

About this Item

Series: Routledge Transformations in Race and Media. Num Pages: 218 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFDT; JFSL3; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 239 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444. . 2015. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781138812413

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News (Routledge Transformations in Race and Media)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138812412
• ISBN 13: 9781138812413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

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.

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.