Media Creates Negative Psychological Impacts towards Racial Stereotyping

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Introduction
In the modern world, all kinds of oppressions involve a dominant cultural psychology that causes different communities to be suppressed on diverse social, racial grounds. There is usually a hierarchy of oppression in which some communities are perceived to be less valuable than others. However, stereotypes are usually utilized to rationalize this domination and to label individuals on certain type while marginalization is the social process of being demoted to the lower social standing. On the other hand, oppression is any form can be visible at the personal or social level in the media as media reaches several individuals regularly and has the power to influence at all the levels of society and contributing significantly to stereotyping, marginalization and oppression of different communities around the world. The paper aims to critically analyze that in what way media impacts psychology of people by portraying particular communities in the diverse society in such a way that the depiction leads to stereotyping, marginalization and oppression of racial groups. For this purpose, two key resources are used in this paper. One is a web article by Sarah Senghas, named “Racial Stereotypes in the Media” published in 2006, and the second one is an empirical research paper by Elizabeth Monk-Turner, Mary Heiserman, Crystle Johnson,Vanity Cotton, and Manny Jackson, “The Portrayal of Racial Minorities on Prime Time Television: A Replication of the Mastro and Greenberg Study a Decade Later” published in 2010.
Racial Stereotypes in the Media – Summary
In her article, Sarah Senghas argued that media demonstrate their own view of reality in the effort to provide life to the overall form and tone while this tone is of racism and bia...

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... that media participated in the symbolic eradication of the blacks and Muslims by negatively stereotyping them and usually relegating them to the boundaries of the entertainment media. However, the photographic images demonstrated in media support the perception that individuals with disabilities are helpless and required to people to fulfill their needs, criminal, pity and abnormal people.

Works Cited

Senghas, S. (2006). Racial stereotypes in the media. Retrieved March 11, 2014, from http://voices.yahoo.com/racial-stereotypes-media-38872.html?cat=9. Monk-Turner, E., Heiserman, M., Johnson, C., Cotton, V. & Jackson, M. (2010). The portrayal of racial minorities on prime time television: A replication of the Mastro and Greenberg study a decade later. Retrieved March 11, 2014, from http://pcasacas.org/SiPC/32.2/Monk-Turner_Heiserman_Johnson_Cotton_Jackson.pdf.

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