Pet Sins November 2004 IssueMedia trends in America - images of men and women of color
Articles
- Native American characters in paperback romances
- Black woman/White man pairings in movies
- The preponderance of light-skinned black women in US entertainment
- More black men than black women in media images?
- More brown/yellow women than brown/yellow men in media images?
- Black as 'male' and yellow/brown as 'female'? Conspicuous absence of black women and brown/yellow men in popular media
- Yellow woman-white man couples in advertisements
- Racial combinations of New York Metropolitan news anchors
- A criticism of R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory
In our December 2001 issue Men & Women of Color in White Society, we discussed the different degrees of acceptance extended towards men of color and women of color by 'mainstream' America. Mainstream attitudes in turn influence male and female attitudes towards white America, in some instances causing a schism between men and women in communities of color.
For this November issue, we bring to attention to differences in the level of media exposure given to men of color and the level of media exposure given to women of color. Media both shapes and reflects real life, and the 'invisibility' or relative insignificance of certain racial/gender groups in white-male-dominated media is quite apparent.