User:Emmanuelh7/Sociology of race and ethnic relations

Race in the Media
The portrayal of race in the media today perpetuates social structural issues of race that are present on a global scale.The way the media is constructed reinforces the historic ideas of the race of black people.For example, racist tropes are used by companies as advertisement tactics. Companies like Dove and Seoul Secret have produced advertisements that depict dark skin and blackness as undesirable, and promote whiteness as the standard. Television consumption is another way the media tells a story about race. Adolescents who identify as Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian report at a higher rate than adolescents overall having mental health issues due to racial discrimination in the media. News coverage of racially motivated violent crimes, movies and television programs with racist narratives and elements, and other forms of media that display race in a harmful context has a direct effect, studies show, on the minority viewer.

https://scholars.org/contribution/how-racial-stereotypes-popular-media-affect-people-and-what-hollywood-can-do-become

This sources decided to go in depth about the impact on how racial stereotypes within the media can affect the over all views on people of color. While doing this it also covers topics in shows how well diverse hollywood is they can use that to their advantage and being more light to the issue of diversity and inclusion and how we can help shape the way people view their surroundings without the obvious bias towards racial groups. While also speaking in the harms that come with the portrayals of minorities in the media and how it affects them directly.