Racism And Media Analysis

Our two assigned chapters present how the unconscious racism operates in the criminal justice system in repercussive ways. To a great extent, I understand that racial and class dynamics influence the media framing of the coverage of the disaster. The ‘California Wildfires’ is an example of a national disaster that biasedly reported on White or wealthy indviduals receiving quick responses to their necessitates without a beat missed. This diverges with Hurricane Katrina’s imagery of rampant lawlessness and violence that heighted the endurance on the myth of the Black male criminals due to their poor socioeconomic status as one of their motivations. It calls into further question on, “the government response to this [and the recent] catastrophe, at all levels—local, state, and federal— has been criticized as insufficient…But in the case of
Widespread perception of their criminality or stereotypical behavior is something of a phenomenon relative to structured absence on power as well as a positive assessment towards White individuals. This is in view of the fact that, “Hollywood films and the television industry have both contributed to the invisibility of racial/ethnic minorities and helped perpetuate racial/ethnic stereotypes….Stereotypes are found throughout film and television because they are mental shortcuts…[so] audiences can quickly understand the characters introduced” (Fitzgerald, 2014, p. 351). It is, therefore, irrational to wholly announce racial imagery doesn’t have certain influence over their audience such as undermining interracial cooperation with superficial empower. Ultimately, these findings solidify that the above-mentioned mediums do affect my thinking about racial/ethnic “others” with its distorted interpretation of people of