The Colorblind Screen

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<p>The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the<br>realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a<br>defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a<br>“colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of<br>integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this<br>attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges<br>by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized<br>racism.<br><br>In The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examine<br>television’s role as the major discursive medium in the articulation and<br>contestation of racialized identities in the United States. While the dominant<br>mode of televisual racialization has shifted to a “colorblind” ideology that<br>foregrounds racial differences in order to celebrate multicultural<br>assimilation, the volume investigates how this practice denies the significant<br>social, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to<br>define race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as President<br>Obama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in which<br>race is read by television audiences and fans. Other essays focus on how visual<br>constructions of race in dramas like 24, Sleeper Cell, and The Wanted<br>continue to conflate Arab and Muslim identities in post-9/11 television. The<br>volume offers an important intervention in the study of the televisual<br>representation of race, engaging with multiple aspects of the mythologies<br>developing around notions of a “post-racial” America and the duplicitous<br>discursive rationale offered by the ideology of colorblindness.</p>