The representation of black men and orientalism in the media
This essay is going to be analysing the various media steriotypes produced in discourse by the West about black men and the orient and how this has a damaging effect on the two ethnic groups in society.
The representation of black men in the media is constructed around a white dominiate supermacist view of them, this view has been orchastrated and maintained historically from slavery.
For example the male gaze which is accepted and normalised from the white male point of view, the black male gaze is demonised as more than admiration for the women but rather a threatanising gaze.
As Robin parker writes in his journal relating to the threatning theory of black men ‘’cultural narratives, …show more content…
This is seen as a more subtle way in which black men are degraded as being problamatic in todays society, Bailtmore councilman Carl Stokes rejecting the phrase as an approach to describe citizens, he called attention to such words ‘’the use of coded language some ways explicitly and other ways implicitly used as a subsitute for personally mediated racism, specifically the term ‘’nigger’’ ‘’ (Smiley & Fakunie 2016). The steriotype of the ‘’thug’’ has justified the imprisoment or deaths of black men in society , there is a disproportion in the amount of black men in prison per percentage of white men in prison in America where the population of black men is smaller than the white – there are ‘’disparities in incarceration rates with African Americans comprising only 12% of the US population but 44% of its incarcreated’’ (Amnesty International). There has also been justification for the murders of unarmed black men in society as they are catagorized as ‘’thugs’’ – in comparison to white men black men are ‘’portrayed as thugs, and criminals to seemingly justify their deaths while simitanously shifting blame away from law enforcement’’ (Smiley & Faukunie 2016). The term ‘’thug’’ is a negative discource that has been perpetuated by overt racism becoming socially frowned upon therefore institutinalised practices, terms and phrases have become the actions and language of racists. Image four demonstartes the media perpetuating the steriotype of the ‘’thug’’ in similarity to how the front cover of Vogue depicted LeBron James as the classic black ‘’brute’’ steriotype. The image on the front cover of Vanity Fair in 2010
This essay is going to be analysing the various media steriotypes produced in discourse by the West about black men and the orient and how this has a damaging effect on the two ethnic groups in society.
The representation of black men in the media is constructed around a white dominiate supermacist view of them, this view has been orchastrated and maintained historically from slavery.
For example the male gaze which is accepted and normalised from the white male point of view, the black male gaze is demonised as more than admiration for the women but rather a threatanising gaze.
As Robin parker writes in his journal relating to the threatning theory of black men ‘’cultural narratives, …show more content…
This is seen as a more subtle way in which black men are degraded as being problamatic in todays society, Bailtmore councilman Carl Stokes rejecting the phrase as an approach to describe citizens, he called attention to such words ‘’the use of coded language some ways explicitly and other ways implicitly used as a subsitute for personally mediated racism, specifically the term ‘’nigger’’ ‘’ (Smiley & Fakunie 2016). The steriotype of the ‘’thug’’ has justified the imprisoment or deaths of black men in society , there is a disproportion in the amount of black men in prison per percentage of white men in prison in America where the population of black men is smaller than the white – there are ‘’disparities in incarceration rates with African Americans comprising only 12% of the US population but 44% of its incarcreated’’ (Amnesty International). There has also been justification for the murders of unarmed black men in society as they are catagorized as ‘’thugs’’ – in comparison to white men black men are ‘’portrayed as thugs, and criminals to seemingly justify their deaths while simitanously shifting blame away from law enforcement’’ (Smiley & Faukunie 2016). The term ‘’thug’’ is a negative discource that has been perpetuated by overt racism becoming socially frowned upon therefore institutinalised practices, terms and phrases have become the actions and language of racists. Image four demonstartes the media perpetuating the steriotype of the ‘’thug’’ in similarity to how the front cover of Vogue depicted LeBron James as the classic black ‘’brute’’ steriotype. The image on the front cover of Vanity Fair in 2010