Question

1. How do media representations reinforce race relations and racial stereotypes? Provide a specific example of this form of prejudice. How can this problem of representation be addressed?
2. Define institutional racism, color blind racism, and microaggressions. How does each of these forms of racism reproduce racial inequality?

Answer 1

Media is the powerful weapon that let the world communicaate with itself thouroughly .It show the way peole can relate with the current affairs with themselves . It natually tend to affect the perception of a common man about the society . Human's thought process works in a way of relativity . It will analyse the new information by comparing with the old meomry . So the old memory also plays a part in creating a perception . Media put some representations that becomes an old memory whih in turn influence the new idea. . This is an indirect way of influencing people and ideas . And media often shows the voice of an ainstitutionalised man rather than a layman . So the pragmatic way of finding the social behaviour gets interrupted by the media . These reassons lead the ideas into stereotypical and let the people be prejudice rather than being rational .

Institutional racism

Institutional racism is defined as a type of racism in a society where it being practiced as a normal behaviour of the society . People used to become familarised with the racism in the particular society .

Microagression

Microaggression is an indirect , unintentional act that offends ssomeone belongs to marginalised community . It is a problem of a society that well set with institutional racism for a long time .

Color blind racism

Color blind racism is the racism where people of a society unaware of their racial acts .It is a belief of people that racism is no longer in existence , but they actually indulge in racial acts.