art, pop culture, and the media Flashcards
what are minstrel shows?
-white people performing stereotypical blackness for a white audience
-became pro slavery
-died out after early 20th century
what is minstrelsy?
white control over the representation of blackness and non-whiteness
what is aesthetic and the 3 types?
-concerned with the appreciation of beauty or art
-white, racist, anti-racist
what is the white aesthetic?
-presents an unraced representation of the social world with whiteness as the default category
-0 representation for POC
-white experience treated as normal
-Norman Rockwell
what is the racist aesthetic?
-does have people of color, but represents them in the wrong ways/never in their full humanity
what are the 3 ways that racial domination is misrepresented?
1) through the whitewashing of their history (ex. movies: The Help)
2) pretending that racial domination doesnt exist (ex. hunger games)
3) depicting racism as a psychological issue
what is the anti-racist aesthetic?
-generally equal representation for all racial groups and sheds light on true histories and current realities of racial domination; corrects the distorted representations
what was the major finding of the Park (2009) study?
found that white characters received more positive treatment than black characters
what were the major findings in the Deggans : More evidence TV doesn’t reflect real life diversity?
-Latines underrepresented
-native americans underrepresented
-black people overrepresented
women underrepresented
what is colorblind casting?
casting a diverse group of actors but writing stories where the characters racial identity and experiences do not matter/impact the storyline
what is digital blackface>
using gifs or memes of black people to express emotions (specifically nonblack people doing this)
