On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Mass Culture, broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Mass Culture: Black Erasure, Blackfishing, Cinema, Consumer Culture, Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Politics, Culture Wars, Digital Black Face, Digital Racism, Diversity, Eurocentric Beauty Standards, Film and Video, Intersectional Representation, Mass Media, Media Narratives, Media Psychology, Media Studies, Minorities in Motion Pictures, Misrepresentation, Online Environments, Popular Culture, Queer Erasure, Racial Tropes, Representation, Serialized Dramas, Social Media, Stereotypes, Television, Tokenism, Type Casting, Viral Black Death, Visual Culture, White Gaze, White Savior Films
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Source: MoveOn. (2018, May 30). How pop culture shapes reality - and stereotypes. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osOLFcoC_Rc
Source: Vice Asia. (2020, January 21). What’s the Difference Between Appropriation and Appreciation? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1JCWc7s6FY
Source: Al Jazeera English. (2020, July 26). Mammy, Jezebel and Sapphire: Stereotyping Black women in media. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2teqoyPe3TU
Source: New York Times. (2017, November 28). The White Internet’s Love Affair with Digital Blackface. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm0LwUHDqE
Source: AJ+ (2018, March 4). The Negative Effects Of The 'Strong Black Woman' Stereotype. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYSzI8fX9o
Source: Now This Entertainment. (2019, December 24). How Asian Representation in Movies & TV Changed This Decade. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnHUHI5ra08
Source: AJ+ (2017, November 10). What Happened To The Golden Age Of Black Sitcoms? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEiXGrqoFMs
Episode: Destroying the Narrative White Hollywood Created
Episode: The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture
Episode: Unpacking Stories and Stereotypes that Harm Black Women
Episode: Engendering the Politics of the Black Athlete
Episode: How the Olympics Failed Black Women
Episode: 40 Acres and a Movie
Episode: Decoding the Racism in Advertising and Entertainment with Professor Gene Shelton
Episode: From Blackface to Blackfishing
Episode: Not All Art
Episode: Trans Visibility with Leyna Bloom
Episode: #MeToo and Black Women: From Hip Hop to Hollywood
Episode: Disability Representation and Identity
Episode: Reparations for Aunt Jemima!
Episode: Storytelling While Black and Female
Episode: Mj Rodriguez
An extension of Color Of Change's work to change the rules in Hollywood, and entire media landscape, to ensure accurate, diverse, empathetic and human portrayals of Black people.
Episode: Superheroes and Representation in the Comic Book Universe
Episode: Reclaiming Our Stories w/ Martina Abrahams Ilunga
Episode: Hollywood
Episode: The Racial Reckoning That Wasn't
Episode: Digital Blackness 2.0
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