Stereotypes

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      ======   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Understanding Prejudice] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "A web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Teaching Tolerance] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "Founded in 1991 by the [|Southern Poverty Law Center], Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Project Implicit] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "Project Implicit blends basic research and educational outreach in a virtual laboratory at which visitors can examine their own hidden biases." Take the online quiz to see where your hidden biases lie--both in general, and in the current presidential election. Warning: This quiz will force you to re-examine your beliefs, with sometimes surprising results. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|See No Bias] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> An article from the Washington Post on the origins of the Harvard Implicit Bias Test. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Media Portrayals of Ethnic and Visible Minorities] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "This section explores the ways in which members of ethnic and visible minorities are portrayed in news coverage and entertainment media in Canada and the U.S. It also explores the representation of minority groups behind the scenes, as journalists and media producers." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Media Portrayals of Girls and Women] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "This section of the site provides a snapshot of the issues around the media's portrayal of women and girls--from effects on body image and self-identity to ramifications in sports and politics. It looks at the economic interests behind the objectification and eroticization of females by the media as well as efforts to counter negative stereotyping." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Media Portrayals of Aboriginal People] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "This section identifies some of the major media stereotypes of First Nations, Inuit, and Native American peoples in film, television, and the news. It explores the effects of such stereotyping, and of the use of Native symbols by professional sports teams, on both the perceptions of non-native young people, and the self-image of Aboriginal youth." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Media Portrayals of Men and Masculinity] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "This section addresses the representation of men and masculinity in the media. It covers topics such as media stereotypes, the prevalence of male characters in TV and film, and male authority in media news coverage; and it addresses the role that the media play in shaping attitudes about masculinity. The section also provides links to articles and reports on these topics." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Media Portrayals of Gays and Lesbians] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "This section addresses the portrayal of gays and lesbians in news, advertising and entertainment media. It also examines homophobia in the media, and provides examples of gay-positive media." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Whiteness and White Privilege in the Media] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> This section deals with whiteness and white privilege in the media; how white privilege is reinforced and supported by the media; and how to media marginalize the perspectives not only of visible minorities, but also of working-class women and men. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
 * General Sources on Stereotypes**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Finding Images **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> To find recent images of stereotypes, you may find it easiest to use a search engine like Google. Use the image search for keywords like "cartoon," "caricature," "racist," or "stereotype," or focus on a particular ethnic, racial, or cultural group or gender. You will find that searching for older images is much more challenging. You will need to use databases of images like the ones found below, or search through more specialized websites. Give yourself enough time to find an image that your classmates can say something about. If you need help, please ask Ms. Voss or Ms. Williamson.

Check out this [|Resource List] of books in the library that contain political cartoons and caricatures. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|American Memory] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning." Search the collection for "cartoon" or "caricature" to narrow your results. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "This assemblage of more than 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art."

[|Calisphere: A World of Digital Resources] Includes primary sources and images for a variety of ethnic groups. Search for cartoons to find images that fit the assignment.

[|Authentic History: Teaching Diversity with Multimedia] " The mission of this collection is to educate about the power of imagery in the stereotyping of race." Search through the other areas of this site for many more images. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|The Chinese in California] "Illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials." Check out the section on the Anti-Chinese Movement. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|The Yellow Kid on the Paper Stage] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "Created by middle-class artist R.F. Outcault, who later went on to draw the even more successful [|Buster Brown] comic strip, the series of images in which the Yellow Kid appeared presented a turn-of-the-century theater of the city, in which class and racial tensions of the new urban, consumerist environment were acted out by a mischievous group of New York City kids from the wrong side of the tracks." See specifically the section on [|Race and Ethnicity]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Cartoon America] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "The 102 drawings selected for this exhibition reflect Woods primary collecting interests and the vitality of an innovative and evolving art form." See also Cartoon America in the library, at [|O-OVER 741.59 CAR] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon and Caricature at the Library of Congress] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "These drawings, often depicting principal events and figures of the day, become in the hands of a master at once topical and timeless, unique and universal. Usually created under short deadlines for reproduction in a commercial format such as a newspaper or magazine, cartoons and caricatures reflect the artists' attempts to enlighten, amuse, provoke, or persuade their readers." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Political Cartoons] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "This is the biggest, searchable database of political cartoons, by the best editorial cartoonists in the world." For images created after 1997. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index] More current political cartoons. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "The dehumanizing caricatures of African Americans, which are embodied in the various items in this collection, are an important part of American cultural history. At the beginning of the 19th century, these images were consciously promoted to defend slavery. During the later part of the 19th and into the 20th centuries, they served to justify the ongoing oppression of African-Americans. Their continuing reproduction underscores the bigotry and prejudice that must be overcome if we are going to become a truly multicultural democracy. These images force a person to take a stand for or against the equality of all human beings." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Stereotyping Native America] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "The exhibit Stereotyping Native America features turn of the 20th Century stereographs of Native Americans from the UCR/CMP’s Keystone-Mast collection, photographs from the Adam Clark Vroman collection, as well as a mural by Ben Benashley, a White Mountain Apache student at Sherman Indian High School in Riverside. The goal of the exhibit is to showcase how, around the turn of the 20th century, photographic convention dictated Native Americans be portrayed according to mainstream American typologies. Natives were represented as noble hunters and squaws; as people who lived in teepees; and as people who wore feathers, buckskins and beads." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|Native American Mascots] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "Almost since the day they were "discovered" by European explorers, American Indians have been caricaturized in stories, ads, films and imagery. Thousands of sports teams that now play on fields once roamed by Native Americans expropriated native images as mascots." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [|The Image of Black] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "The images of black people in European Art help to trace the journey of the African Diaspora from their homelands into Europe. They are evidence of another hidden history, and seen together, they reflect the complexity of black representation."

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