images of race and ethnicity
Title: African American women and violence: Gender, race, and class in the news
Author(s): Meyers M
Source: CRITICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA COMMUNICATION 21 (2): 95-118 JUN 2004
This article discusses how African-american women are portrayed in the news and media and how it represents the victims and the victimizers.
Title: The newsworthiness and selection bias in news about murder: Comparative and relative effects of novelty and race and gender typifications on newspaper coverage of homicide
Author(s): Lundman RJ
Source: SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM 18 (3): 357-386 SEP 2003
this article talks about how the media decides which homicides to cover based on the race and gender. it talks about how the news has a "selection bias" - basically, what will make their ratings better.
Title: Symbolic reality bites: Women and racial/ethnic minorities in modern film
Author(s): Eschholz S, Bufkin J, Long J
Source: SOCIOLOGICAL SPECTRUM 22 (3): 299-334 JUL-SEP 2002
this article discusses how the portrayal of women and racial minorities in film stuck with the usual stereotypes or they were given smaller roles in the film. These days they are becoming less stereotyped in films, however, the traditional stereotypes still exsist.
Meyers, M. “African American Women and Violence: Gender, race, and class in the news.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 21 (2) (June 2004): pg. 95-118
Lundman, RJ. “The newsworthiness and selection bias in news about murder: Comparative and relative effects of novelty and race and gender typifications on newspaper coverage of homicide.”
Bufkin J, Escholz S, Long J. “Symbolic reality bites: Women and racial/ethnic minorities in modern film.” Sociological Spectrum 22 (3) (July-September 2002): pg. 299-334
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