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Joanna Brannon
Professor Ogbara
English 100, Section 1178
November 8, 2014
Can the media greatly effect ethnicity and gender roles?
Ross, Susan D, and Paul M. Lester. Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the
Media. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2011. Print.
In this book, Susan Dente Ross and Paul Martin Lester, address how the media is dangerously
stereotyping and discriminate against certain ethnics, race, or gender. They believe the
stereotypical images we receive from the media that go unnoticed are the most harmful ones
because we as happy didnt see anything out of place about it. They do seem like they are
attacking the media, but Ross and Lester are simply expressing how the media is turning our
country into a negative prejudiced state. This book also provides actual examples from a number
of sources, such as advertising, fine art, film, television shows, cartoons, the internet, and other
media. Using the research that this book offers will help support my argument on how the
media can greatly effect ethnicity and gender roles.

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Moss, Mark H. The Media and the Models of Masculinity. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books,
2011. Print.
Mark Moss, an author who wrote a very resourceful book on how the media has been perceiving
men. Whether its on the television or in advertisements, men are being seen a certain way,
which makes other men believe that they have to be the same. Moss goes more into depth on
how, historical tropes and models are especially important in this construction and influence
and impact contemporary variations. Not only is the current media displaying men in a specific
tone, but the past history and stories that have been passed down and told have depicted an image
on men. Mark Moss book will be incredibly useful for my research paper because I am focusing
on men and women, and this pinpoint view on how the media perceives men will be more than
helpful.
Carilli, Theresa, and Jane Campbell. Challenging Images of Women in the Media: Reinventing
Women's Lives. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2012. Print.
Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, both editors and fighters for the same cause, greatly inform
us readers on what the media has always been directing towards women. They explain how the
media leaves women confused about their role in society because of the mixed messages that are
continuously sent. Such as anchor women, talk show host, we then have the women that are in
sexually content music videos, it causes a massive stir in how women should be looked at. Not
only is this book addressed for the United States, research was also conducted and given from
Japan, Australia, Pakistan, India, China, and Bulgaria, so we now know this is a worldwide issue.

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This book would help me have a view point from the womens side and get a better
understanding of how the media is effecting this gender.
Rubie-Davies, Christine M, Sabrina Liu, and Kai-Chi K. Lee. "Watching Each Other: Portrayals
of Gender and Ethnicity in Television Advertisements." Journal of Social Psychology. 153.2
(2013). Print.
In the article, three informative writers have come together to express television advertisements
role in effecting men, women, and ethnicities. They provide reliable resources that give us more
information such as, studies have shown that repeated exposure to selective portrayals of
particular groups can lead to viewers adopting distorted beliefs about those groups. The media
does not realize that what they are displaying can greatly have a negative impact on the human
mind and this article addresses it finely. Although this does focus on the men and women in New
Zealand, it still gives us a great grasp on a worldwide view. Using the information this article
provides for my research paper will help me incorporate how ethnicities are effected by the
media.
Torres, Sasha. Living Color: Race and Television in the United States. Durham: Duke
University Press, 1998. Print.
Living Color, is combination of many studies on critical race theories, which will give us an
incentive on how the media represents race on American TV. The essays provided in this book
also cover several of factual stories that prove that African Americans are mistreated throughout
the entertainment business. It goes on to express how things like this that the media puts out gets
unnoticed by most viewers, and its incredibly disappointing. Although they do know they

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cannot blame those who do not really think much of how certain races are represented because
that is how they were raised upon. Utilizing this information towards my research paper would
allow me to talk about what really takes a toll on ethnics being effected by the media.