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  • The Law of the Father, the Law of the Land: Power, Gender and Race in The Shield

  • MIKE CHOPRA-GANT
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 41 / Issue 3 / December 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 October 2007, pp. 659-673
    Print publication:
    December 2007

  • This article examines the construction of gender and race in the television series The Shield (FX 2002–). The article argues that while The Shield seems to offer an ostensibly progressive vision of a multi-cultural society in which race and gender represent no barrier to the possession of legitimate authority, the series premises the possibility of such access to power on the continuing possession of “real” power by a paternalistic white, male figure, thus presenting a regressive conservative vision of gender and race relations in contemporary US society.