1 / 10

Media Studies

Media Studies. Introduction to Race and Culture in the Media. Quiz Results. Terrorist- 40% Muslim-20% Arab, Scary, Eerie, Weird, Intimidating. Gangster-32% Fit-32% Hot, Black, The Situation, Ripped, Welfare, Flop. Fat/Overweight-65%

veta
Download Presentation

Media Studies

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Media Studies Introduction to Race and Culture in the Media

  2. Quiz Results Terrorist- 40% Muslim-20% Arab, Scary, Eerie, Weird, Intimidating Gangster-32% Fit-32% Hot, Black, The Situation, Ripped, Welfare, Flop Fat/Overweight-65% Sexy, cute, confident, gym, whale, woman, plus-sized model, eww, ugly, lazy Gay/ Homosexual-60% Love-16% Equal rights for all, friends, disturbing, queers, accepting

  3. Quiz Results Continued... Old fashioned-28% Housewife-28% Annoying, Proper, Perfect, Mom, Weird, Breasts Poor-32% Scary, Angry, Africans, Women with not many rights, Different culture, Real, Middle East, Hot weather, towels

  4. Why do we think like this? Systematic marginalization through various forms of media.

  5. Origins of Racial Categories(or how early anthropology contributed to systematic racism) The Americanus: red-skinned, of stubborn character, and angered easily The Asiaticus: yellow-skinned, avaricious, and easily distracted The Africanus: black-skinned, relaxed, and of negligent character The Europeanus: white-skinned, of gentle character, inventive mind, and bellicose The Monstrosus: mythological human sub-races (included feral children and Khoi people- a South African tribe) Carl Linnaeus

  6. Origins of Racial Categories(or how early anthropology contributed to systematic racism) Utilized PHRENOLOGY (analysis of human skulls) to further Linneaus’s idea that race was physiological. Five categories of race: Caucasian (white), Mongolian (yellow), Malayan (brown), American (red), Ethiopian/Negroid (black) Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

  7. Early Discrimination in Action • Slavery • South African Apartheid • The Holocaust (Eugenics) • The Belgians and the Hutus /Tutsis in Rwanda

  8. Hegemony The political, economic, ideological or cultural power exerted by a dominant group over other groups, regardless of the explicit consent of the latter

  9. Does hegemony exist in our society today? How? Who has the power?

  10. Discussion/Homework Is Chris Rock justified in saying this? Why or why not?

More Related