CHICANO 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: White Privilege, Ken Burns, Focus Group
10 Nov 2016
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Unconscious racism allowed to run rampant through media. 11-15% of population, but get 1% of coverage. 0. 6 of all sources are latino not seen as a legit interview source. Ken burns (historian) only gave 4/5 mins to latino baseball players, when latinos make up a. When latinos have won more medals of honor than any other group and there were at least a million involved. Latinos have been denied access to telling their own stories (only 3-4% of newsroom are. Fewer stories are being told by/about this group and of the stories being told, 66% are negative stories. Network brownout report: immigration is referred to as a wave, flood, tsunami (dangerous) Brown tide rising: metaphors carry strength immigrants as animals, soldiers, invaderes, weeds, and objects (not addressed as. There is no differentiation between mexicans, mexican-americans, and immigrants. Immigrants=criminals do not rceive the same amount of respect and/or opportunities.
