Description: Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities.
Brief description: Catherine R. Squires is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
Review Quotes:
With Barack Obama a major candidate for president at the time of its publication, this study of how news media deal with multiracial people and issues is timely." -- CHOICE
"This is one of the few sustained treatments on racial discourse, interracial representation, and the media. The use of case examples organized around coverage of key controversies--court cases, life stories, public controversies--gives the narrative momentum and at the same time provides the author with the space for serious and engaged analysis." -- Herman Gray, author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation