Briana James

1. RuPaul’s Drag Race provides an example of cross gender and bisexual lives to audiences that may not have a real life example to look to personally.

2. Television is largely responsible for reinforcing gender roles and glorifying white standards of beauty. RuPaul’s Drag Race provides a diverse vision of feminine beauty by including many…[Read more]

1. Men represent about 90% of CEO’s in entertainment media which gives them the power to control the narrative structure and represent women as sexual objects.
2. Men have the ability to control how news is presented in the media. News concerning issues involving females are often shared in a non-newsworthy manner.
3. Downplaying serious topics…[Read more]

1. The U.S. was founded on racism and all forms of racism are embedded in all layers of society.
2. It’s striking that 13% of black men are not allowed to vote due to incarceration.
3. Colorblindness is a new form of racism that allows white people to ignore the problem making it impossible for improvements in racial relations and inequality.

1. Even if white people don’t realize it, they benefit from undeserved privileges just because of their skin color. Some people are more privileged than others simply because of the categories they fit in.
2. Race is socially constructed and coincides with politics. The U.S. census is forever changing racial categories.
3. One of the greatest…[Read more]

1. Many people fail to understand that ethnicity and race are not synonymous. Therefore, it is possible for a person to be black and latina/o.
2. The media misrepresents that there are black latina/o people because majority of the latina/o roles are played by fairer skin latina/os.
3. Zoe Saldana should not be outed because she is not “black”…[Read more]