Counter-Framing

Feagin, Joe R.

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“…Feagin (2013) defines it as the racial lens or frame that legitimates, rationalizes, and shapes racial inequality in the United States. According to Feagin (2013), “white racial frame is a centuries-old worldview that has constantly involved racial construction of societal reality by white Americans” (p. x).…”

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Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America

Kumah-Abiwu

2019

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Black men continue to face many challenges in the United States, but their negative portrayal in the media seems to be one of the pervasive challenges facing them. While “occupying” a huge space in the media landscape, one wonders why such a space has not been adequately used to draw public interest/attention to the problems facing Black men. This dilemma with implications for policy outcomes (action/inaction) deserves further theoretical insight. To explore this, the article draws on the critical race theory and white racial frame with the literature on the social construction of Blackness, Black men, and media gatekeeping to advance the argument that the intersections of race, social structures, and media gatekeepers create incentives for the negative portrayal of Black men.

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Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America

Kumah-Abiwu

2019

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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“…It is by now a truism that photographs and other forms of visual, mobile art which position South Asia as an Orientalist fantasy reproduce what many have theorized as the White racial frame (see, for example, Dyer, 1997; Feagin, 2009; Seshadri-Crooks, 2000). In her work on the circulation of images in global North news media, Zeynep Gursel (2016) refers to images like those found in magazines like National Geographic as “indexed bodies,” which are meant to represent an entire country’s population.…”

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AfterEat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and cartographies of salvation

Putcha

2020

Tourist Studies

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This article examines certain kinds of travel and tourism as extensions of colonial and examples of neocolonial forms of Orientalist engagement between the global North and global South. Focusing on areas that border the Indian Ocean, and the South Asian context in particular, I interrogate the gendered, racial, and geopolitical attachments that have historically drawn and continue to draw travelers to the region for tourism. I refer to these attachments as cartographies of salvation. In connecting the history and representations of travel to the area to the forms of leisure and spiritual tourism popularized by the 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, I argue that the Indian Ocean region remains for many a paternalistic endeavor or an exotic playground, where one can project a sense of purpose or indulge in an escapist fantasy. This article combines critical tourism studies, feminist ethnography and theory, and critical race studies.

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“…Social institutions such as “schools, the news media, and government agencies constitute important sites for reproducing these controlling images” (Collins 2010 ). Media depictions of members of marginalized groups—in the US case, non-Whites—are part of a larger discourse that actively constructs a “White racial frame” in which the interests, experiences and perspectives of Whites are represented as normative (Feagin 2010 ). The welfare queen, for example, is arguably a stereotype because it is a historically generated, descriptive, and false term.…”

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“…Our study advances Collins’s work on controlling images through revealing the prevalence of the “illegal” discourse in the mainstream press and the specificity of illegality as an axis of inequality. Whereas racialized and gendered tropes of African Americans serve to uplift the White racial frame while subjugating Black communities (Collins 2010 ; Feagin 2010 ), the AJC ’s frequent erasure of immigrants’ gender and race serves to better stereotype and dehumanize them.…”

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“…Given the concern among African Americans over economic competition with immigrants and the growing political power of Latinxs (Gay 2006 ), 1 it is possible that the Black press reproduces anti-immigrant and anti-Latinx controlling images of immigrants that maintain white privilege even when espousing a Black counter-hegemonic discourse that critiques racism generally (Feagin and Cobas 2008 ). Alternatively, given the similar histories of oppression shared by African Americans and Latinxs (Chavez 2013 ; Entman and Rojecki 2000 ; Feagin 2010 ; Santa Ana 2002 ), the Black press may eschew negative portrayals of immigrants and even work to counter the depictions in the mainstream press.…”

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Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press: The discursive power of the “illegal Latino”

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In this paper, we investigate controlling images of Latinx immigrants in the US press. Our paper expands theory within this literature in two new directions. First, we look at the controlling image of the "illegal" as well as the conventional controlling images of the immigrant described in the literature. Second, we investigate whether controlling images of Latinx immigrants remain prevalent outside of newspapers aimed at a predominantly White audience by comparing controlling images of immigrants in Atlanta's mainstream press to the city's Black press. We find that controlling images of immigrants are prevalent in the mainstream press but seldom appear in the Black news media. We also find that the "illegal" represents the predominant controlling image of immigrants in both. Few controlling images are explicitly gendered. We argue that the lack of gendering in the controlling images of immigrants may serve to dehumanize all immigrants, complicating and expanding extant research.

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Counter-Framing

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Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America

Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America

AfterEat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and cartographies of salvation

Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press: The discursive power of the “illegal Latino”

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