- entman & rojecki, the black image in the white mind [[note: this is the entire freaking book! don’t read all of it. just read chapter 5, “violence, stereotypes, and african americans in the news” pp. 78-93]]
- gross, “#iftheygunnedmedown: the double consciousness of black youth in response to oppressive media” link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10999949.2018.1441587?scroll=top&needAccess=true
excessive stuff below. ignore at your pleasure
- nytimes: “shooting spurs hashtag effort on stereotypes”
- npr: “behind a twitter campaign, a multitude of stories”
- (the tumblr version of the campaign)
- noble, “teaching trayvon” https://safiyaunoble.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/teaching_trayvon__race__media_noble.pdf
- this is “extra” but short and related, so here it is: sandra bland’s face
- sociologists get into the mix. (and a related issue)
- another academic piece on the campaign. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1532708616634836
- if you want to read more about the issues discussed in the intro to the TMC piece from last week, here’s a new article linking recent events to the history of slavery and policing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/06/policing-black-americans-is-long-standing-ugly-american-tradition
- if you are interested in the role of visual representations, news about crime, and racial stereotypes, there are lots of things you could read. (but don’t, because this is extra, and no one does extra work!). like this: “framing news stories“; “the face of the crime“; “the portrayal of race and crime on tv network news” nothing too exciting here, but it’s here.
- critique of FBI’s forensic photo analysis: https://www.propublica.org/article/with-photo-analysis-fbi-lab-continues-shaky-forensic-science-practices
- on a completely unrelated note, but nevertheless of interest to the class topics of photographs and identity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/07/hipsters-all-look-same-man-inadvertently-confirms