By Michelle

Representation of black
people in the Media

I will be discussing the representation of black people in the

media for my collective identity essay.
How black people are represented in the mass media are mostly
negative portrayals and tend to make audiences go for the
dominant reading the mass media has created.

A lot of work on the Race and Media has focused on the

representation of black men and women. This has been partly been
because there is a strong African American counter-culture which
provides viable role models and demands that they are represented,
and partly because some of the early racial stereotypes were so
obvious and offensive.

Primary Texts
London

2011 riots clips

Being black- http://www.bbc.co.uk/vi
deonation/articles/u/uk_beingblack.sh
tml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertai

nment/7907262.stm
Empire- American show
Get hard
Crash

Theories/Theorists
Stuart

Hall-There is something
radically wrong with the way how
black immigrants are handled by
and represented on the mass media.
Watson Gramsci-Hegomony is of particular
salience to the exploration of racial
representations in the media
because of its focus on culture and
ideology

History of Blacks on TV
http://www.slideshare.net/daprofess

a/african-american-images-in-the-me
dia?next_slideshow=1

Historical Texts

These texts will help me to look at the history of black

people.
Blacksploitation- In the 70s blackspoitation movies would
be the dominant source of African American films. Despite
the desire to have people of color in leading roles the
stereotypes overshadowed this accomplishment. These
movies were heavy on graphic sex scenes, violence and
stereotyped black men as pimps, black women as whores
and criminals.
Little Sambo- The cartoon
Black Santa- the show and Cartoon
12 Years a Slave
Selma

Secondary Texts
Online

article- How
underrepresented are black people
in film today?
Online article- Oscars: Acting
Nominees All White