WGS200Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 36: Dashiki, Animal Print, Reality Television
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Jennifer l. pozner is a media critic and lecturer. She has founded the women in media and news (wimn), an agency that analyses media, provides education, and advocacy, and manages their blog. Reality television networks do not frequently include racial minority people within their media: Of the 170 contestants in cycle thirteen for america"s next top model (antm), only six were east or south asian. Of the racial minority contestants, they were portrayed as experiencing an identity challenge and were labelled as the dragon lady or the china doll. Latina top model auditions were portrayed as promiscuous and ghetto ed. One of the winners of the show was half-mexican however had quite fair skin and was therefore written off as a default american, with no subjective comments about her ethnicity. African americans are also entered into narrow limits, often being cast as black bitches who are aggressive and violent.
