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- Title
Jewishness, Whiteness, and Blackness on Glee: Singing to the Tune of Postracism.
- Authors
Dubrofsky, Rachel E.
- Abstract
The Fox series Glee, with its self-conscious focus on issues of diversity, is a fitting location to examine ideas about race in a postracial mediascape. Looking at Rachel, who is Jewish, this work explores how the construction of her Jewishness functions to situate her as a disenfranchised ethnic minority with the same status as characters of color, at the same time as it grants her the privileges of whiteness. Examining Mercedes, a black character, the article argues she is only granted access to the privileges of whiteness when whitened. Ironic and self-conscious humor and the trope of the musical number are also integral to the analysis since these frame race issues in a postracial manner, foreclosing possibilities for critical engagement.
- Subjects
GLEE (TV program); TELEVISION characters; CULTURAL pluralism; JEWISH identity; POSTRACIALISM
- Publication
Communication, Culture & Critique, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
1753-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cccr.12002