{"product_id":"white-balance-justin-gomer-9781469655796","title":"White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights","description":"The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, \"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.\" However, in the decades after the civil rights movement, the ideology of colorblindness co-opted the language of the civil rights era in order to reinvent white supremacy, fuel the rise of neoliberalism, and dismantle the civil rights movement's legal victories without offending political decorum. Yet, the spread of colorblindness could not merely happen through political speeches, newspapers, or books. The key, Justin Gomer contends, was film--as race-conscious language was expelled from public discourse, Hollywood provided the visual medium necessary to dramatize an anti-civil rights agenda over the course of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn blockbusters like \u003ci\u003eDirty Harry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRocky\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDangerous Minds\u003c\/i\u003e, filmmakers capitalized upon the volatile racial, social, and economic struggles in the decades after the civil rights movement, shoring up a powerful, bipartisan ideology that would be wielded against race-conscious policy, the memory of black freedom struggles, and core aspects of the liberal state itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Justin Gomer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469655799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469655796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Justin Gomer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44598623863039,"sku":"9781469655796","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b43d2f34-e903-4416-8c16-055c78f7a8bc.jpg?v=1702383539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-balance-justin-gomer-9781469655796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}