The Black image in the white mind.

When I was looking for the books which I include in my bibliography I came across the book which suits perfectly to my topic. The book's  main topic is the media and race in America. Contemporary mass media has a great influence on people's minds. The author of this book tries to answer to some crucial questions about the portrayal of the black people in mass media : 

''What is the current state of White's attitudes towards Blacks?, How do the media influence the culture? What are the new hidden codes of racial difference and hierarchy?'

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The book describes the ways of presenting black people in the Media.  First of all, the author focus on the presence of black people in the News.

It turned out that the majority of stories presented in the News are devoted to White people.

Whites were twelve times more likely to have a network newsstory to themselves than were all the other ethnic groups combined (75.5 percent versus 6.3 percent).

At the most general level the color pattern of the news conveys a sense that America is essentially a society of White people with minorities.

The main focus of the eleventh chapter is devoted to the issue of race and movies. I will pay the attention to this topic in my next post.

Anita