Black Men Stereotypes

Throughout history, the stigma that surrounds Black people has become a dominant discourse that specifically racialized Black males, today. There are specific traits that are associated with Blackness and understood to be represented by public views. Williams Rose (2002) argues,
As the color white is associated with everything good ….so Blacks has, through the ages, carried associations with all that is bad and low…… the Negro is believed to be stupid immoral, diseased, lazy, incompetent, and dangerous to the white man’s virtue and social order (p.181).
Blackness have become a target in public spaces, such as, the street of Toronto, the malls and even in prison. Given the negative stereotypes that associated Black males with criminality, they are constantly under surveillance. The social construction of race by the dominant ideology are still embedded in society that capitalized on minorities.
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2). Kelly Welch (2007) argues that, “The stereotype of Black as criminals, is so pervasive throughout society that “criminal predator” is used as a euphemism for young Black males. This common stereotype has erroneously served as a subtle rationale for the unofficial policy and practise of racial profiling by criminal justice practitioners” (p. 276). Racialized Black population have always been associated with negative stereotypes and images by the general public and law enforcement. Moreover, Ifanyi Ezeonu (2010 )reported that police construction of crime was based on “Racial, ethnic, and cultural categories, as well as immigration issues also feature prominently in the way some police departments construct violence or crime” (p. 3). The police officers accept as truth a correlation between low-income neighbourhoods and high level of