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MENT 3100 - Week 8 - Race
MENT 3100 - Week 8
Race - Construction, Identity
Remember...
Remember
When we're talking about race
What we're talking about
- Some basics:
- culturally constructed, not biologically dictated
- culturally vital/central, so no less powerful
- In the media:
- race is mobilized to justify and reinforce social power structures
- this mobilization is not equally distributed
Race and Media
- Historically, patterns of discrimination have extended to media--representation, industry workforce, etc.
- Stereotypes, bigotry, subordination also extend to media
- Traditional media AND social media
Race and Media
Race and New Media
"The media are struggling, too, as they try to clarify this muddled racial topography. Far from the newspaper race beats of the late 1960s and ’70s—which focused on protests, affirmative action, and integration—today’s race beat lacks a consensus on how it should be covered. NPR’s Code Switch blog, for instance, dissects how racial tropes are perpetuated in pop culture. Tanzina Vega, meanwhile, who covers The New York Times’ new race and ethnicity beat, tries to capture the shifting day-to-day cultural lives of minority communities as they begin to outnumber whites." CJR
Race and New Media
BLM and Twitter
- Five categories for the hashtag:
- mention solidarity or approval of the movement
- refer to police violence
- mention movement tactics
- mention Ferguson
- express counter-movement sentiments
- How does a black activist movement function in the post civil rights era?
- Important definition, "social movement frame:"
- "the way that activists define problems to encourage movement participation."
BLM and Twitter
BLM and Twitter, cont'd
- Users can define problems and solutions without the need for direct leadership
- Societal events catapulted the hashtag into popularity: the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO
- what is important:
- solidarity
- the place of
Ferguson is
culturally meaningful
. - We see a pattern: specific grievances give way
. to broader strategies and tactics