Lisa Simone Kingstone

Fading Out Black and White (eBook, PDF)

Racial Ambiguity in American Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of America changing where white will no longer be the majority, but the belief in the firmness of these categories and the boundaries that have been drawn is also disintegrating. In a nuanced reading of culture in a post Obama America, this book asks what will become of the racial categories of black and white in an increasingly multi-ethnic, racially ambiguous, and culturally fluid country. Through readings of sites of cultural friction such as the media frenzy around 'transracial' Rachel Dolezal, the new popularity of racially ambiguous dolls, and the confusion over Obama's race, Fading Out Black and White explores the contemporary construction of race. This insightful, provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the one-drop rule that is unique to America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216223399
• Artikelnr.: 74843778

Autorenporträt

Lisa Simone Kingstone is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of International Development at King's College London. She has a BA from Barnard College, an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in English Literature. Before coming to King's, she taught English Literature at the University of Connecticiut and worked as a professional journalist. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Overview of the book
Terminology
Chapter 1: Tracing Race: A tour of the Racial Binary
Chapter 2: The Trial of Rachel Dolezal: The First Transracial
Chapter 3: Obama as Racial Rorschach: The First Blank President
Chapter 4: Casting Color: Black Barbie and the Black Doll as Racial Barometer
Chapter 5: Really Black: Black-ish and the Black Sitcom as Racial Barometer
Chapter 6: Talking about Race: Black, White and Mixed Focus Groups
Coda
Appendix
Bibliography