%0 PDF %T Discursive (Re)Productions of 'Post'-Race Schooling: Glee and the Post-Racial Gaze. %A Phelps, Benjamin. %8 2017-04-24 %R http://localhost/files/sb397m64h %X Abstract: This thesis investigates how the popular primetime television series Glee adopts a "post-racial gaze" to reproduce inequality through its representations of institutional practices and its cultural representations of racial difference. The thesis argues that Glee maintains a gaze on both youth and racialized bodies, which reproduces racial power structures under the guise of equality. This universalizing discursive strategy of post-racialism erases important intersectionalities and (re)produces "post-racial" ideologies that ultimately serve to redeem and restore dominant identities. This becomes important as a national ideological project, as the show both implicitly and explicitly advocates for increased diversity and tolerance, yet its methods and underlying messages largely serve to bolster the status quo. The thesis focuses on the storylines of the three main female characters of Color, while also comparing their written experiences to those of their counterparts in dominant positions, in order to better understand the process of racialized difference.; Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2013.; Submitted to the Dept. of Education.; Advisor: Sabina Vaught.; Committee: Freeden Oeur, and Monica Ndounou.; Keywords: Education, Film studies, and Ethnic studies. %[ 2022-10-13 %9 Text %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution