Please prepare a minimum of 5 full pages or more on a topic of your choice related to race, ethnicity, art and film.Due May 13th.
Be sure to footnote (any format is fine, preferably MLA format) sources that you consult; include a works cited or bibliography.
Papers need not focus on material considered directly in class. Do, however, touch on the readings and films we've seen, as appropriate. As always, be sure to develop your analysis by reasoning your way through the "evidence" you are considering. It is fine to arrive at we-wrought questions rather than conclusions.
We've covered material regarding race and ethnicity in art and film such as: Bamboozled, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Crash, and American Lives 2 the Documentary by PBS. (I can provide some notes I've taken if needed)
Topic notes:
• How the media portrays African American and other ethnicities/cultures in the media, whether it is the news, the movies, or any sort of way. How stereotypes are portrayed very obviously in the media, especially the entertainment media and other news. E.g. Black = violent, Caucasian = rich.
• How other cultures have stolen or acting like the African-American culture and use them, but still not accept them as equal (sort of).
• How the media is filtered.
o Media controlled by 6 large corporations in the US and control 90% of the American media compared to in 1983 where American media was owned by 50 companies
- These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America:http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
• Why is it that news media has its own agenda on what they present and how they present it, such as the cases in seen nowadays in Baltimore, New York, and Missouri over the issue of social injustice against the discrimination against African-American people
• How the use of a grand jury even in trials is NOT considered unbiased. In other words, the jury are selected, not necessarily a random selection from the public.
• Social experiments have been made in which: they gave people divided into 2 groups a fake a gun. Police group and normal citizens group. Each was given a scenario in which they have to act on and were observed how they would react as a way of finding justice in the cases recently observed in the U.S.