Curriculum Unit: Stereotypical Images of African Americans in Televisio

Curriculum Unit Stereotypical Images of African Americans in Television and Movies* Narrative* Lesson Plan* Lesson Plan* Lesson Plan* Notes* Films* Television figures* Childrens Reading List* Teachers BibliographyAbstract This curriculum unit will translate elementary school teachers with a framework to begin to help their students date and define a stereotype. Recognize common stereotypes and stereotypical themes in aim and television and illustrate some(prenominal) damaging effects perpetuating stereotypes through behavior. Finally, how to constructively deal with others stereotyping them.To Guide EntryThe practice of racial stereotyping through the occasion of media has been used throughout contemporary history by various factions in American society to attain various goals. The practice is used more or less by the dominant culture in this society as a way of suppressing its minority population. The Republican parties use of the Willie Horton image in the 1988 presidential campaign, is a small example of how majority groups have used racial stereotyping in the media as a justifiable means to an end. The countersign unreflective Eurocentrism by Stam and Shohat supports this notion when they write the functionality of stereotyping used in film demonstrates that they (stereotypes) be not an error in perception but rather a form of social control intended as Alice Walker calls prisons of image.(1)The mod usage of the word stereotype was first introduced in 1922 by American journalist Walter Lippman in his book Public Opinion. The major thesis of this book is that in a modern democracy political leaders and modal(a) citizens are required to make decisions about a variety of multiform matters that they do not understand. People believe that their conceptions of German soldiers, Belgian priests, or American Klu Klux Klansman for example are accurate representations of the real members of those classes . . . the conception in most cases is actually a st ereotype acquired by the individual from some other reference point other than his direct experience.(2)Historically the other source people developed racial stereotypes were from literature and then radio. In 1933 superior Brown the great shady poet and critic, divided the full range of down(p) characters in American literature into seven categories the contented slave the vile freemen t... ...A-TeamGood TimesLittle RascalsThats My Mammato topChildrens Reading ListBogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks. New York Continum, 1989.Braley, Daniel and Daniel, Katz Racial Stereotypes of One Hundred College Students. journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 1933.to topTeachers BibliographyBogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks. New York Continuum, 1989This books reveals and gives a historical perspective on the various incarnations of black stereotypes in American cinema.Cripps, Thomas. smutty Film as Genre. Bloomington Indiana University Pres s, 1978.This book attempts to explain what is a black film and critiques six examples of the genre.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TVs Black humankind TurnsBut Stays Unreal, New York Times (November 12, 1989) 66-67.In this word Dr. Gates reveals how despite the success of television shows such as The Cosby Show stereotyping of blacks on T.V. is still prevalent.Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness The African-American Image in Film. Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1993.The book chronicles blacks misrepresentation in American films.