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Selected Resources about Race and Gender Stereotypes in Media

Spring 2002 Awareness Campaign

Resources:

This list includes resources on race, gender, and how they intersect in media representations and popular images.

Web sites:

Tolerance.org

Children Now, Advocacy Group examining role of the media in children's lives

MANAA: Media Action Network for Asian Americans

YAAMS: Young African Americans against Media Stereotypes (awesome site)

Dartmouth's Guillermo Gómez-Peña site

www.raceandmedia.com: Book promotion site with interesting statistics:

Big Bad Chinese Mama (parody of stereotypes of Asian women)

http://www.bigbadchinesemama.com/home.html

http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/article_detail.asp?Article_ID=3936

The Dartmouth Articles:

You can also search The Dartmouth archives at: http://www.thedartmouth.com/

"Panelists Disagree on Validity of AAS: Asian American Studies Sparks Debate," March 4, 2002

"Panelists Discuss Black Issues," February 22, 2002

"Students Talk Inter-group Dating," January 31, 2002

"Students Share Opinions on Indian Mascot," November 14, 2001

Films:

Color Adjustment (TV stereotypes of blacks; in Baker)

Ethnic notions (Media stereotypes of black; in Baker)

Hollywood Harems (film available in Jones Media Center)

In whose honor?: American Indian Mascots in Sports : a documentary (in Baker)

Mambo Mouth w/John Leguizamo (cultural stereotypes of Latinos; in Baker)

Slaying the Dragon (film stereotypes of Asian women; with Nora Yasumura)

Tough Guise w/Jackson Katz (Violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity)

Books:

All of the following are available in Baker; many suggestions come from:
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/media_stereotypes.html

Bataille, Gretchen, and Charles Silet. The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies. Ames: Iowa State UP, 1980.

Dines, Gail & Jean M. Humez (eds.) Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1995.

Fregoso, Rosa. The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993.

Friar, Ralph. The Only Good Indian: The Hollywood Gospel. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1972.

Friedman, Lester. Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1991.

Marchetti, Gina. Romance and the 'Yellow Peril': Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

Miller, Randall. Ethnic Images in American Film and Television. Philadelphia: Balch, 1978.

Murray, James. To Find an Image: Black Films From Uncle Tom to Superfly. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.

Noriega, Chon. Chicanos and Film: Essays on Chicano Representation and Resistance. New York: Garland, 1992.

Pines, Jim. Blacks in films: A Survey of Racial Themes and Images in the American Film. London : Studio Vista, 1975

Rocchio, Vincent F. Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American culture. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.

Silk, Catherine. Racism and Anti-Racism in American Pop Culture: Portrayals of African-Americans in Fiction and Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990.

Woll, Allen. Ethnic and Racial Images in American Film and Television: Historical Essays and Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987.

Wong, Eugene F. On Visual Media Racism: Asians in the American Motion Pictures. New York: Arno, 1978.

Please blitz "awareness campaign" with any suggestions for additions to this list!