Race and the Media: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze

Jiwani, Yasmin

doi:10.22230/cjc.2009v34n4a2286

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“…Soderlund 2005;Srikantiah 2007). It is also consistent with more general criticisms of media outlets, such as the Toronto Star, for their overt racialization of news reports naming the race of Black suspects while not naming the race of White suspects who are wanted by the police (English 2016), and broader critical race analyses of the mainstream media (e.g., Jiwani 2009;Tator and Henry 2000).…”

Section: Conclusion and Recommendationssupporting

confidence: 74%

“…22 The dominance of inter-racialized images of Black and Arab/Muslim accused and White female victims is highly problematic, not only in terms of which suspects are likely to be over-surveilled by police and disproportionately prosecuted and convicted, but also because it influences which victims have access to justice. Our findings add to the existing literature suggesting there are racialized victim hierarchies in Canada (Chan and Chunn 2014;Jiwani 2009Jiwani , 2019Raguparan 2019). For example, there has been considerably less media coverage of transborder trafficking victims, such as the fate of the nineteen male victims and their families in the high-profile Domotor-Kolompar Ontario labour-trafficking case.…”

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Racialized, Gendered, and Sensationalized: An examination of Canadian anti-trafficking laws, their enforcement, and their (re)presentation

Millar¹,

O’Doherty²

2020

Can. j. law soc.

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In Canada, there are persistent allegations and some empirical evidence suggesting racialized police bias; certain (non-White) groups appear to face over-enforcement as criminal suspects and under-enforcement as victims. Yet, it is challenging to prove or disprove these claims. Unlike other countries, where governments routinely publish police-reported crime and criminal court data identifying the race/ethnicity of criminal suspects and victims, Canada maintains a ban on the publication of such data. In this article, using an intersectional and critical analysis, we examine 127 prosecuted (predominantly domestic sex) trafficking cases and explore related claims of racial and gender bias together with sensationalism in the enforcement of Canadian anti-trafficking in persons laws. Our findings align with other empirical research observing the racially selective identification and prosecution of sex trafficking cases through a heteronormative and gender binary lens. Whether real or perceived, racial—alongside gender, sexuality, economic, citizenship, and occupational—bias has significant adverse consequences for the equality, liberty, security, mobility, labour, and access to justice rights of the Indigenous, Black, Arab/Muslim and other racialized communities being policed. Our data reveal a clear and pressing need to publish race-disaggregated crime and criminal court data and to challenge deeply ingrained stereotypes using various means.

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confidence: 52%

Racialized, Gendered, and Sensationalized: An examination of Canadian anti-trafficking laws, their enforcement, and their (re)presentation

Millar¹,

O’Doherty²

2020

Can. j. law soc.

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“…In order to gain a nuanced understanding of how our food ads conform to or diverge from existing racial stereotypes, we follow with a qualitative reading of the character roles in our ads to identify cultural schemas for racial identities. In our analysis, these schemas are themselves interpreted comparatively, as their meanings are contingent on their place within an ecology of racialized representations that vary by group (Jiwani :737).…”

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“…We start with themes suggested by prior research (e.g., Henry and Tator ; Jiwani ), and ask whether the same findings translate across space and time. Specifically, do findings about the representations of Blacks and Asians, relative to Whites, in the United States in the 1990s and earlier predict the way that these groups are portrayed in Canada in the late 2000s?…”

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Cultural Schemas for Racial Identity in Canadian Television Advertising

Baumann

2014

Canadian Review of Sociology

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What meanings are attached to race in advertising? We analyze a sample of prime-time Canadian television advertising to identify cultural schemas for what it means to be White, Black, and East/Southeast Asian. Our empirical focus is on food and dining advertising. Through quantitative content analysis of associations between race and food subtypes, we show that there are systematic differences in the types of foods that groups are associated with. Through a qualitative content analysis of the commercials, we illuminate these quantitative patterns and discuss six cultural schemas for racial identity. The schemas allow for both diversity and privilege in the representation of Whites, and poignant contrasts regarding status and emotionality in the narrow representations of the other two groups.

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“…Peoples of Canada were not examined in this study. Indigenous peoples have been found to be negatively stereotyped in the past (Ewanation & Maeder, accepted;Harding, 2006;Jiwani, 2009; this group if this law is brought against them.…”

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Terror in the Justice System: Effects of Defendant Race and Religion on Juror Decision-Making in a Criminal Trial

Woodard¹

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New Canadian anti-terror legislation was passed in 2015, expanding the scope of criminal offences to include advocating or promoting terrorism offences in general. This study explored juror perceptions of the applicability of this law by having participants read a trial transcript involving this charge in which the defendant's race (Black/White/Arab) and religion (Christian/Muslim/undisclosed) were manipulated. Participants provided a guilty/not guilty verdict, then answered a brief questionnaire on attributions of the defendant's actions and stereotypes held by the Canadian public. Results demonstrated that two attribution measures, defendant stability and defendant responsibility, were related to verdict outcome. Of note, at

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Race and the Media: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

Racialized, Gendered, and Sensationalized: An examination of Canadian anti-trafficking laws, their enforcement, and their (re)presentation

Racialized, Gendered, and Sensationalized: An examination of Canadian anti-trafficking laws, their enforcement, and their (re)presentation

Cultural Schemas for Racial Identity in Canadian Television Advertising

Terror in the Justice System: Effects of Defendant Race and Religion on Juror Decision-Making in a Criminal Trial

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