COMM 121 Study Guide - Afro
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White, middle-class, well educated (publicly) heterosexual men have dominated production and content of mass media. Their perspective generally dictates what we see. Representations (croteau and hoynes teach us) are not reality. Media is not a magical thing that appears. Social construction asks us to include producers of media. Media content reproduces the inequalities that exist in society. Race was made up to mark differences between people, especially based on skin color. The globe has equated whiteness with normal against which all other groups are measured. There is no real evidence to support that this is true, right, or good. White does not need to be explicitly stated. That which goes unnamed often has power. We do not have a prolific af am moviemaker/producer in contemporary hollywood. Bodies of color were played by white actors with black face paint and afro caps. This was seen as ok, normal, funny to move af ams. Stuart hall: the whites of their eyes.
