What Can You Say America’s National Conversation on Race 1st Edition by John Hartigan 9780804763363 0804763364
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Author:John Hartigan
We are in a transitional moment in our national conversation on race. “Despite optimistic predictions that Barack Obama’s election would signal the end of race as an issue in America, the race-related news stories just keep coming. Race remains a political and polarizing issue, and the sprawling, unwieldy, and often maddening means we have developed to discuss and evaluate what counts as “racial” can be frustrating. In What Can You Say?, John Hartigan Jr. examines a watershed year of news stories, taking these events as a way to understand American culture and challenge our existing notions of what is racial―or not.
The book follows race stories that have made news headlines―including Don Imus’s remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, protests in Jena, Louisiana, and Barack Obama’s presidential campaign―to trace the shifting contours of mainstream U.S. public discussions of race as they incorporate new voices, words, and images. Focused on the underlying dynamics of American culture that shape this conversation, this book aims to make us more fluent in assessing the stories we consume about race.
Advancing our conversation on race hinges on recognizing and challenging the cultural conventions governing the ways we speak about and recognize race. In drawing attention to this curious cultural artifact, our national conversation on race, Hartigan ultimately offers a way to to understand race in the totality of American culture, as a constantly evolving debate. As this book demonstrates, the conversation is far from over.
What Can You Say America’s National Conversation on Race 1st Table of contents:
1 – From Gangsta Parties to the Postracial Promised Land
What Counts as Racial?
Making Sense of Race in the News
“National Conversation”
A Cultural Perspective on Race in the United States
2 – Waking Up to Race with Imus in the Morning
“Those words, those words.”
Was It Racist?
Crossing the Line
Rituals of Race
Dollars and Sense
Equal Opportunity Offender or Total Humor Failure?
“Ho ho ho.”
What Was He Thinking?
What Are We Talking About?
3 – Narrating Nooses
Not Black and White
When Race Becomes the Story
The Narrative Takes a Turn
Myths in the Media
Does Jena Really Represent America?
Getting It Right
4 – “Race Doesn’t Matter”
“This is a contact sport, politics.”
Prelude to Iowa
Conventional Wisdom, or the Power of Conventions
“This is new.”
Shooting Up Race
Calculating Racial Advantage
Restoring Decorum, Graciously
Individuals in the Face of “Tribal Warfare”
The Bradley Effect
“The Obama campaign is wrong.”
“I am not a racist.”
“Our Time”
What Is the Race Card?
5 – Conversation Stoppers
“Lynch him in a back alley.”
“Race is a tough discussion in this game. It raises sensitivities.”
Intelligent Dialogue
“There’s no difference.”
Being Correct or Being Right
“I certainly had bad tone and clumsiness.”
“If I said what I was quoted as saying, I can only admit that I am bewildered by it.”
“He had uttered the unutterable.”
“It’s a can of worms for us.”
6 – Our Unfinished Conversation
In the End
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