Ethnic, Racial, and Gender Stereotypes in the Media

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This course traces how popular entertainment mediums such as film, television, books, comics, "wild west shows," music and cartoons have impacted perceptions of ethnic and racial groups from the early seventeenth century to the present. Besides analyzing the persuasive power of these types of mediums, it examines why such representations were created and why they still persist. Often these racialized images are equally rooted in gender, class, and sexualized identities and this is explored as well. The mythopoeic image that surrounds Indigenous Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx, and other minority groups are juxtaposed against the historical reality that these groups have faced and the contemporary inequalities that we still must confront. CGER SBS-BS Social & Behavioral Science: Social & Behavioral Studies. Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.