CJE-3065 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Model Minority, Ventriloquism
25 Oct 2016
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Irrespective of the mass medium you examine, the messages about race are fairly uniform. American indians were two times as likely to be victims of violent crime than african americans. They are also the most likely to be victims of interracial crime. The primary media talk about them centers on gambling casinos or the issue of using indian names and symbols for athletics teams and mascots. Redskin refers to the early practice of hunting and killing indians and offering their scalps as proof for the payment of a bounty. Another underlying feature of the media stories involving native americans is that they live away from the rest of us . This distance supports the idea that american indians are somehow different. Asian men are even scarcer in the media than asian american women. Only one tv show about an asian family. The way they gain visibility is through news stories.
