How are black people represented in the media?

LO: To discuss media representations of black people and how they have changed with time
Starter task: Briefly discuss with your neighbour how different ethnic groups are represented in the media. Is it positive or negative? Can you give any examples?

What do you think?

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In the past...
In the 1950s,60s and 70s black people were often not shown on TV or in film. They did not work on the News or present radio programmes. The times they were shown on TV they were often STEREOTYPED in a negative way. They were shown to be CRIMINALS or shown only to be SINGERS,DANCERS,SPORTS PEOPLE or MUSICANS

Are these pictures from the bill and Eastenders a true picture of black people?

What problems might continued representations of black people in this way mean for this group?

Are images of black people in the media improving? Are they given ordinary roles or do stereotypes still exist?

The Cosby Show - Call of the Wild, part 1

The Cosby show

Abercrombie(1996) believes that things changed in the 1990s when black actors played normal roles in soaps such as the Cosby show. These programmes portrayed black people more successfully

Fresh Prince of Bell Air

Challenged stereotypes but dealt with stereotypes that people held such as black fathers being absent Showed black people in the middle class and with life opportunities

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Draw a timeline showing how the representation of black people has changed from the 1950s up until the 1990s.

1950s and 60s Black people absent or under-represented or given negative stereotypes

What about the Asian community?

Complete the orange written activity. Stretch complete the purple stretch activity

Bend it like Beckham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bwVgfhil M8 Challenged stereotypes about women and Asian women whilst looking at Asian families, to show us a picture of modern Asian families in the 1990s

Media folk devils What role does the media play in creating folk devils in society? Think about what news stories feature Asian and Black people. What is the cumulative effect of these stories?

Folk devils: A group portrayed by the media as deviant.

Discuss how far sociologists would agree that representations of black people in the media are stereotypical rather than realistic

In your group make a plan of how you would answer this essay Stretch can you introduce key terms mass media, stereotype, can you bring in other agencies of socialisation that negatively stereotype this group?

Discuss how far sociologists would agree that representations of ethnic minorities in the media are stereotypical rather than realistic

On the one hand,

On the other hand,

What are the stereotypes?

What would be realistic representations?

Look at the attached reasons which side of the argument would you place them? Since the 1990s programmes such as the Bill and Eastenders have attempted to challenge negative stereotypes about black and Asian people

Black people and Hip hop culture are portrayed as violent and aggressive in the media

Black characters in reality TV shows often fit a stereotype as aggressive or stupid

Muslim women are portrayed as oppressed in the media

Programmes like Desmonds and Goodness gracious me challenged stereotypes

Many more Black and Asian people have been employed as newsreaders and actors on British TV

Young Muslim men are seen as a threat either extremists or gang members

What does a 12 mark answer look like?

There must be evidence of clear understanding shown through developed use of relevant sociological concepts and/or ideas within a well focused discussion which explicitly addresses how far.

Consolidate
What is meant by conformity? Other than the mass media, where else might a young person form their identity? Give one stereotypical representation of black people in the media. Give one stereotypical representation of Asians in the media. Give a more realistic representation of black people.

Home Learning
Keep a log/diary this week of the way the media portrays black and Asian people
Day Tuesday Time 7.30pm Programme/channel BBC1 Eastenders Media representation Patrick old black man, happy, in the pub Denise working in a shop, angry, working class