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Now that your class has screened this
film...
Conduct some online research about the topics of
MEDIA & RACISM....MEDIA & RACIAL STEREOTYPES.
See what results you get and look through some of it carefully.
Check out this information Prof.
Rucker has prepared for this class:
CLASS READER
ON RACIAL DIVERSITY
Type a two page maximum, double-spaced,
one inch margins on all sides paper
which answers all of the following questions:
1. Does THE COLOR OF FEAR offer
any insights which might explain some of the research
you found or read?
2. How would you say the media portrays your ethnic culture
or race today? Consider
advertising, TV, magazines, movies or online sites. Is your
culture visible or invisible?
Is the portrayal positive, negative, purposefully omitted?
Offer your individual perspectives.
3. In a year when an
African-American is considered a serious candidate for
President of the
United States, how would you say the media has reported the
issue of race in this
campaign? Has media efforts done more to help American voters
be more at ease or
made them less comfortable with the notion of an
African-American president?
* Note * After the Mississippi
Primary Tuesday of this week, exit poll information
suggested 91% of Blacks there supported Obama, 72% of white
voters
there supported Clinton. This suggests strongly voting was
done along
racial lines versus "cross-over voting" which is seen as
color blind making
race an irrelevant issue.
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Put the following info at the top of page
one of your paper:
MCOM 105
COLOR OF FEAR (Your Name)
(Your Ethnic Culture Briefly Identified)
Be prepared to share this information with classmates during Monday,
March 17th class
meeting. Your typed assignments will be collected at the end of
class.
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