Narcos, Orange Is the New Black, and House of Cards are all popular shows that are watched on Netflix by the millions of viewers or subscribers. Unfortunately, these popular shows lack the diversity of an American family and tend to generalize and/or stereotype families that are non-white. The second finding is that gender and relationship roles are viewed differently based on race, culture, and status in all three shows. Thirdly, the last finding that was brought to my attention was the lack of diversity in roles and characters that are in the TV programs. For the viewers, these shows are purely entertainment thus, the audience will not understand the hidden messages that are being conveyed and perpetuated.
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The Black characters are conveyed as individuals who have a troubled past such as, identity theft, selling drugs, prostitution, involved in gangs, and broken families. Whereas their white counterparts have the same issues but society and the citizens do not shun or ridicule them for their behavior. Inside the prison the women are separated into different sections of the prison based off their race and ethnic groups that each woman identifies with. Crazy Eyes is a Black female inmate and stud who has a mental illness (a gay/homosexual that is the “male” in the relationship) the character is portrayed as a serve lunatic, has anger issues, and stalker that is madly in love with Piper (Season 1, Episode 4). The problem with this character and/or role is the Black women are not properly represented in a racial and cultural way instead she is mocked and depicted as an insane criminal serving time in a women’s prison. If a viewer, is watching the show he or she is more inclined to associate crime and violence with Black people because of the image that is being put out from the media and audience (Velasco 2016). Sadly, once a false perception is put out by the media such as, TV programs, news, and articles, more people are likely to …show more content…
This offensive image suggests that Black women are wild creatures all while downplaying mental illness which undermines the struggles of Black women and the Black community that suffers from being marginalized by a society mainly dominated by the white majority. The entire racial roles and characters with the exception of the DEA agents were depicted as criminals in the show Narcos (Velasco 2016). In essence, the show was “Americanized” and told from the perspective of a white individual’s account who performed no criminal acts only the Latino men and women (Velasco 2016). In my opinion, both race and/or ethnic groups have so much more to offer, rather than being depicted as criminals to the
With every show the goal is to …show more content…
The Black characters are conveyed as individuals who have a troubled past such as, identity theft, selling drugs, prostitution, involved in gangs, and broken families. Whereas their white counterparts have the same issues but society and the citizens do not shun or ridicule them for their behavior. Inside the prison the women are separated into different sections of the prison based off their race and ethnic groups that each woman identifies with. Crazy Eyes is a Black female inmate and stud who has a mental illness (a gay/homosexual that is the “male” in the relationship) the character is portrayed as a serve lunatic, has anger issues, and stalker that is madly in love with Piper (Season 1, Episode 4). The problem with this character and/or role is the Black women are not properly represented in a racial and cultural way instead she is mocked and depicted as an insane criminal serving time in a women’s prison. If a viewer, is watching the show he or she is more inclined to associate crime and violence with Black people because of the image that is being put out from the media and audience (Velasco 2016). Sadly, once a false perception is put out by the media such as, TV programs, news, and articles, more people are likely to …show more content…
This offensive image suggests that Black women are wild creatures all while downplaying mental illness which undermines the struggles of Black women and the Black community that suffers from being marginalized by a society mainly dominated by the white majority. The entire racial roles and characters with the exception of the DEA agents were depicted as criminals in the show Narcos (Velasco 2016). In essence, the show was “Americanized” and told from the perspective of a white individual’s account who performed no criminal acts only the Latino men and women (Velasco 2016). In my opinion, both race and/or ethnic groups have so much more to offer, rather than being depicted as criminals to the