Media Representation: Personal Thoughts. Literature & Language Essay
Topic choice 1: Media Representation
It's been a difficult weekend to consider how media represents issues like race and gender. We're reading a piece like Lauren Jackson's ("We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface") while issues of violence against black men, institutional racism, police abuse, and protest are happening in real time. It's a lot to process. What are you thoughts about Jackson's piece? Have you seen similar arguments about the images that we share? What other issues related to media representation concern you? In the past, this course has also covered issues related to beauty standards, and we've read excerpts from a well-known book called The Beauty Myth - essentially an investigation and summary into how much women are expected to prioritize their appearance and how destructive this can be. In case anyone is interested, writer Jia Tolentino explores and updates the idea of appearances in the age of social media in another article I have assigned in the past, "The Age of Instagram Face". Finally, there is a great, student-created short called "A Girl Like Me". The director, Kiri Davis, was a teen when they created the film, which essentially deals with ethnocentric beauty standards. She also re-examines Dr. Kenneth Clark's 1940s "Doll Test" experiments investigating racism and impacts on children. It's only about 7 minutes long, and I encourage you to watch it as you consider responses to these questions. Be aware, though, that it contains some difficult material in terms of how children confront racism. I'm looking forward to reading through your responses and answer questions if I can!
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Media Representation: Personal Thoughts
This is a very sad eye-opening piece on how stereotyping against the black race is very rampant in today’s social media use because of an unjust representation. The written article is purposively calling out people using “memes” or GIFs that showcase either facial overexpression or other perceived verbal expressions that are claimed to be used by the black people. It allows us to understand that the use of such, particularly by the non-black races, is plainly racism. These social media materials showing exaggerated black people would also give false generalization and judgment against the black race. This is even evident from the Doll Test by Dr. Kenneth Clark. Based on this test, black children even perceive their own complexion and facial features as inferior as compared to the non-black race. This is alarming and saddening at the same time. Children from the black race view themselves as uglier and less interesting as compared to the other race. An article entitled...
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