Stereotypes on the Screen and Box
   Lecture 25 - Thursday, November 29, 2007
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"Bamboozled" segment (by Spike Lee) to be shown in class.
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/10/06/bamboozled/  

Results of the music survey, bring your songs!

6th short paper due.

Required Readings
 1.  Entman, Robert M. and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind:  Media and Race in America.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Chapter 10, "Advertising Whiteness," pp. 162-181.
2.  Manring, M.M., Slave in a Box: the Strange Career of Aunt Jemima.  Charlottesville, VA:  University Press of Virginia, 1998.  Chapter 5; pp. 110-148; Chapter 6, pp. 149-183.
3.  Wilson and Gutierrez, Chapter 5.

Additional Background Material

Pieterse, Jan Nederveen.  White on Black:  Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture.  New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992.  Especially Chapter 13, Blacks in Advertising, pp. 188-210.

 

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