Analysis Of Michael Omi's In Living Color: Race And American Culture

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In Michael Omi’s chapter “In Living Color: Race and American Culture”, he expresses his resentment towards the media and how they handle race relations. The essay discusses how the media in popular culture represents minorities, and how it leads to perception of race based on what the public views and hears (Omi 116). Omi believes that the way minorities are portrayed in visual media provides people with a false impression of their race, and media only adds to numerous judgmental stereotypes that surround minority races (Omi 117). Thus, creating a culture of citizens that have prejudices based on the stereotypes depicted on television or in movies (Omi 119). Discrimination and racism are still very alive in the culture of America, popular

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