Racism and Popular Culture: Representation, Resistance, and White Racial Fantasies

Mueller, Jennifer C.; Williams, Apryl; Dirks, Danielle

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76757-4_5

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“…The Internet and digital media have complicated how we “do race” (Pitcher 2014; Mueller, Williams, and Dirks 2018). New media extends and mirrors race relations that we experience offline (Mueller et al 2018) and amplifies “old” racial problems while bringing forth racialization processes that are unique to the digital age (Daniels 2012). Furthermore, different platforms facilitate varying experiences for distinct groups (Williams 2017).…”

Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, well-intentioned White social media users rapidly share and consume videos of violence and bigotry against Black bodies. Gruesome footage of fatal encounters with police are shared in a manner that epitomizes the “empathic fallacy”: the idea that people can be convinced to change their mind-set on racism if they are simply exposed to racism (Delgado and Stefancic 2017; Mueller et al 2018). Instead, widespread viewership of black pain and racial violence becomes “banal, extending people of color’s trauma while buttressing White fantasies further.…”

Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead, widespread viewership of black pain and racial violence becomes “banal, extending people of color’s trauma while buttressing White fantasies further. Indeed, normalizing black and brown suffering” (Mueller et al 2018:84).…”

Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, new media have enabled mass consumption of white supremacist imagery and ideology (Mueller et al 2018). “BBQ Becky” (the White woman who called the police on black park-goers in Oakland), “Permit Patty” (the White woman who purported to call the police on a black child selling bottled water), and “Pool Patrol Paula” (the White woman who called for police because of a black family in the pool) (Cleary 2018; Lee 2018; Mohdin 2018) are all emblematic of the social dominance that White people have the ability to evoke at their leisure.…”

Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although digital communities thrive, the sharing of experiences online is often racialized. The Internet and digital media have complicated how we "do race" (Pitcher 2014;Mueller, Williams, and Dirks 2018). New media extends and mirrors race relations that we experience offline (Mueller et al 2018) and amplifies "old" racial problems while bringing forth racialization processes that are unique to the digital age (Daniels 2012).…”

Section: Social Media As Sites Of Oppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The authors investigate the association between self-reported experiences of discrimination and social media use among Black American adults. Experiences of discrimination were assessed using a 10-question scale of self-reported discrimination encounters. Data analysis was based on a sample of 220 Black American adult respondents residing in Texas. The results indicate that Black Americans reporting higher levels of discrimination use social media more frequently than those who report lower levels of discrimination. In addition, Black Americans who experience higher levels of discrimination are more likely to have accounts on Twitter or Facebook than those who experience lower levels of discrimination. Together, these findings suggest that social media sites such as Twitter serve as sites of expression for people of color to air their grievances, find community, and cope with online and offline forms of racism and discrimination.

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Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Media As a New Frontier Of Racism And Racial Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Media As Sites Of Oppressionmentioning

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Race, Gender, and Police Violence in the Shadow of Controlling Images

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Despite the emergence of the #SayHerName movement alongside #BlackLivesMatter, research on police encounters is rarely intersectional and has largely neglected the potentially violent consequences of gendered and racialized “controlling images.” Using New York City investigatory stop data (2007–2014), and drawing on controlling images theory, our analysis shows that Black men and women experience higher rates of police violence than White men and women. Within race, analyses indicate that Black men experience more police violence than Black women. The same gender gap exists for Whites, Asians, and Latinx persons, suggesting that broad cultural perceptions of femininity and masculinity shape police violence. However, these gendered frames mostly dissolve in instances of potentially fatal violence, as we find no gender differences within race or ethnicity in these extreme cases with one exception: police point their guns at Black men slightly more than at Black women. Further, the controlling image criminalizing Black men casts a long shadow—police are more likely to use violence on individuals stopped in the company of a Black man across gender, race, and ethnicity. This study provides a comprehensive, intersectional analysis of police encounters, both reaffirming and extending controlling images to understand why race, ethnicity, and gender disparities in state violence experiences persist.

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Racism and Popular Culture: Representation, Resistance, and White Racial Fantasies

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Discrimination and Black Social Media Use: Sites of Oppression and Expression

Discrimination and Black Social Media Use: Sites of Oppression and Expression

“Glossed over and missing”: Preservice teachers learn about slavery in Canada

Race, Gender, and Police Violence in the Shadow of Controlling Images

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