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Media Images of Black Males: Continuity > Change
December 10, 2014
Four dimensions of white racial sentiment
Source: Entman and Rojecki, Black Image in the White Mind (U of Chicago, 2000)
Robert M. Entman J.B. & M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media & - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Robert M. Entman J.B. & M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media & - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Media Images of Black Males: Continuity > Change December 10, 2014 Robert M. Entman J.B. & M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media & Public Affairs The George Washington University Four dimensions of white racial sentiment Source: Entman
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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 2000 2004 2008 2010 (UWASH)
Slavery and discrimination make conditions difficult (% who disagree) Blacks should work their way up with no special favors Not trying hard enough; Blacks should try harder
Since mid-1980s, denial increases; other attitudes stable
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Media Images of Black Males contribute to Whites’:
- Equating crime, welfare, and poverty with Black
- Overestimating African Americans as % of US population
- Overestimating Black poverty
- Overestimating White victimization by Black crime
- Punitive attitudes toward (presumptively Black) crime
- Denying continued significance of discrimination vs. Blacks
- Assumption Whites face more discrimination than Blacks
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Typical scenes from Ferguson Coverage
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Eric Garner
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Flavor ¡of ¡Love-‑VH1 ¡
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Grant ¡The4 ¡Auto: ¡All-‑Time ¡Best-‑Selling ¡Game ¡ ¡ (except ¡Wii ¡Play ¡and ¡Rock ¡Band) ¡
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Better practices
- Treat law enforcement as other
government officials treated: skeptically, ask tough questions
- Assume hidden agendas that
promote own interests
- Assume lying or mistakes
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More Better Practices
- Understand built-in pro-prosecution bias
(for white and black defendants!) from near-monopoly on authoritative info
- Self-consciously assess visual images
and language for bias
- Compare Michael Brown images
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Michael Brown #1
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Michael Brown #2
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Michael Brown #3
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Better Practice Beyond Media
- Demand active leadership discussion on
reducing police misuse of violence
- No reason for ideological divide on this
- In interests of police as well as citizens
- Revamp police training to correct