The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News

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.

Author: Libby Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/09/2015
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781138812413

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2016

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.