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Subtitle: interracial images in popular culture
By: Erica Chito Childs.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780742560796
Subjects: Interracial marriage -- United States -- History; Interracial marriage in mass media; Sex in mass media; Popular culture -- United States; Racism -- United States; Race awareness -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, the author considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color line. Examining a range of media, from movies to music to the web, this work offers an informative and provocative account of how the perception of interracial sexuality as "deviant" has been transformed in the course of the 20th century and how race relations are understood today.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Historical realities and media representations of race and sexuality; title: The prime-time color-line : interracial couples and television; title: It's a (white) man's world; title: When good girls go bad; title: Playing the color-blind card : seeing black and white in news media; title: Multiracial utopias : youth, sports and music.