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Ryan Mills
Professor Ogbara
English 100, Section 0813
November 7, 2014
Annotated Bibliography
Hoppenstand, Gary. "Editorial: Race, Media, and Democracy." Journal of Popular Culture
Dec. 2012: 1135-136. Web. 7 Nov. 2014.
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This article explores the topic of the portrayal of racial stereotypes in mass media
as an element of popular culture studies. The author provides a discussion of the
book "Struggles for Equal Voice: The History of African American Media
Democracy," by Yuya Kiuchi, focusing on exploration of the history of African
Americans in television programs and films during the U.S. civil rights
movement. Gary Hoppenstand is a professor of American Studies teaching in the
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State
University. He has published fourteen books, seven scholarly reprint editions of
classics novels for Signet Classics and Penguin Classics, and over fifty scholarly
articles on topics ranging from popular culture studies, to literary studies, to
media studies. He is frequently interviewed regarding popular culture and events
in the media. For these reasons, I would like to use his article to support my idea

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that the media perpetuates racial stereotypes. Kiuchi, focusing on exploration of

the history of African Americans in television programs and films during the
U.S. civil rights movement. Gary Hoppenstand is a professor of American
Studies teaching in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
at Michigan State University. He has published fourteen books, seven scholarly
reprint editions of classics novels for Signet Classics and Penguin Classics, and
over fifty scholarly articles on topics ranging from popular culture studies, to
literary studies, to media studies. He is frequently interviewed regarding popular
culture and events in the media. For these reasons, I would like to use his article
to support my idea that the media perpetuates racial stereotypes.

Kretsedemas, Philip. "But Shes Not Black!." Journal of African American Studies 14.2
(2010): 149-70. Web. 5 Nov. 2014.
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This article talks about how media stereotypes of angry black women have
become more pervasive in recent years. This article explores the historic
antecedents and current permutations of this stereotype, explaining how it
synthesizes stereotypes from the Jim Crow era with more recent media depictions
of black women and black professionals. The analysis focuses on portrayals of
black women on the network television show, Ugly Betty. It explains why these
portrayals can be regarded as a new translation of the tragic mulatta stereotype

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that has been infused with a colorblind discourse on race. This article also
examines the results of an interview study with over 52 discussants who were
exposed to excerpts from the show which provided several different examples of
angry black women. Philip Kretsedemas is an Associate Professor of
Sociology at University of Massachusetts-Boston whose areas of expertise are in
Immigration, Critical Race Theory, Welfare and Immigration Policy, and Social
Theory. For these reasons, I would like to use her article to support my idea that
the media perpetuates racial stereotypes.

Kurtz, Howard. "Some Journalists Link Crime Coverage, Racism." The Washington Post
(pre-1997 Fulltext) 29 July 1994: 0-A11. National Newspapers Core. Web. 5
Nov. 2014.
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This article explains how in black dominated citys the crime is considered a way
of life for them, with the implication that they aren't anybody, just those
homicidal blacks who commit murder, but if it happens where it is mostly white
it must be somebody. Columnist Earl Caldwell said he left the New York Daily
News last spring after a white editor refused to print his column alleging that a
white police officer had sexually assaulted five black men. The editor has
maintained that the column was unfair and Caldwell refused to make changes.
Howard Kurtz is an American journalist and author with a special focus on the

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media. He is the host of Fox News Channel's Media Buzz program, the successor
to Fox News Watch. He is the former media writer for The Washington Post and
the former Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast. He has written five
books about the media. For these reasons, I would like to use his article to
support my idea that the media perpetuates racial stereotypes.

Pickering, Michael. "Sex in the Sun: Racial Stereotypes and Tabloid News." Social
Semiotics 18.3 (2008): 363-75. Web. 5 Nov. 2014.
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This article takes a front-page tabloid news story as an example of how racism
in the tabloid news operates. It shows how the story draws on various
stereotypical representations of female and black sexuality on the one hand,
white European and black African social arrangements on the other. The lead
story plays fear and fascination off against each other as its key point of interest,
and in doing so ensures that various gender and racial myths and stereotypes are
maintained in ideological circulation. Michael Pickering is a Professor of Media
and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University. He has published over a
hundred articles and chapters in edited collections. These cover a number of
areas including popular music, racism and popular culture, imperialism and
theatrical history, Mass Observation, working-class writing, news and
documentary, stereotyping and representation, humor and comedy, creativity

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and cultural production, media and memory, and historical hermeneutics. For
these reasons, I would like to use his article to support my idea that the media
perpetuates racial stereotypes.

Ramasubramanian, Srividya. "Television Stereotypes and Affirmative Action." Television

Stereotypes and Affirmative Action. National Communication Association, Apr.
2010. Web. 02 Nov. 2014.
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In this article Dr. Ramasubramanian explains how visual media are powerful
sources of information that help us understand ourselves and others in society
and how media messages subtly legitimize existing status quo by providing
causal explanations for why subordinating groups deserve to be in their assigned
positions. According to her television readily provides a steady stream of racial
stereotypes, which actively creates or reinforces audiences' existing perceptions.
African-Americans and Latino-Americans are often under-represented,
marginalized, and demeaned in mainstream media in stereotypical ways.
Similarly, Latino-Americans, have been the objects of derision in popular
media. News stories about racial/ethnic out-groups are often told using vivid
anecdotes and personalized case studies. Television entertainment programs also
contribute to cultivating negative stereotypes of people of color as aggressive,
unintelligent, and boisterous. Overall the article suggests that television
continues to be a dominant socio-cultural agent that influences racial attitudes

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and race-targeted policy preferences. Dr. Ramasubramanian seems to be an

authority on the subject because she is a media psychologist whose research
examines the intended and unintended effects of popular media on audiences
attitudes about themselves and others. In particular, she explores the effects of
media representations of race/ethnicity and gender/sexuality on audiences
attitudes, feelings, beliefs, and policy opinions. For this reason, I would like to
use her article to support my idea that the media perpetuates racial stereotypes.

Stein, M. L. "Racial Stereotyping and the Media." Editor & Publisher 127.32 (1994): 12.
Web. 5 Nov. 2014.
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This article discusses the presence of racial stereotyping in media according to

`News Watch, A Critical Look at Coverage of People of Color,' a study released
in San Francisco, California. There are specific cases of discrimination from
articles and columns in newspaper and other mass media in the journal. M. L.
Stein is an author who has written many works about similar topics, this along
with being listed in the Academic Search Premier database leads me to believe he
is a credible source. For this reason, I would like to use his article to support my
idea that the media perpetuates racial stereotypes.