Limited representations Flashcards
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Dominant/controlling images
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Controlling images is a way to make racism, sexism, poverty to appear normal, natural
Anchoring and maintaining these controlling images is sexuality; Black women frequently portrayed as either asexual or hypersexual
2
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CML (Critical media literacy)
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Central for change
Challenges how representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality simultaneously disempower some groups in order to privilage other groups
We need to know how to watch and not just what to watch