Examples Of Racism In Crime Tv Shows

Racism In Crime-Drama TV Shows As Donald Trump once said, “ When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” This is a clear example of how people are racist towards other ethnicities that they don’t belong to. People become racist due to a number of things, their environment, their upbringing, and even what they see in the media. The media plays a huge role in how people portray other ethnicities in the world. While looking through different crime-drama TV shows including Criminal Minds, CSI Miami, and Hawaii Five-O, they do a poor job with the portrayals and characters of other ethnicities. The portrayals of roles of people of color is not a new concern happening at this time. A 2011 study done by Katherine Scott showed how crime television shows has an influence on public precipitation. During her study she watched several different crime drama shows and noticed a remarkable discovery. She decided to count the suspects throughout the show and determine if they were lower, middle, or upper class. With this she also determined if they were female caucasian, female non-caucasian, male caucasian, or male non-caucasian. Her study showed that surprisingly the female and
The first episode I watched was in season 1 and it was episode 8, “Natural Born Killer.” The characters during this episode consisted of 88% whites and 12% African Americans (15 to 2). This shows how overrepresented whites are. While looking at the investigators/cops there was 82% whites and 18% was African Americans. This shows that the show makes it seem like whites have more authority over different ethnicities. However while watching the show, the suspects were 100% whites and the victims were also 100% whites. This agrees with Soullieres study that the majority of the time, whites will kill whites or blacks will kill