Critical Analysis Of Dylan Roof Manifesto By Frances Robles

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The media text that is being addressed in this literary piece is a news article found in the New York Times titled “Dylan Roof Manifesto” by Frances Robles. In today’s society, the media plays an integral role in delivering various messages to the public, shaping how society thinks and reacts to different situations. Media sources including television, news articles, and social media have the ability to exert influence upon individuals and groups of people in relation to the way we think about the world. Cultural studies critics claim that the media we’re exposed to, always represents a partial vision of society in regards to several social constructs including race and ethnicity. Media will be delivered to us in a way that represents particular perspectives of the world and society, without taking into consideration the views of minority races. There is a current obsession in mainstream media about the way in which African Americans are portrayed especially in the West. Global media has continuously portrayed African Americans in a predominantly …show more content…

One factor under this theory is stereotyping which is the process of constructing misleading and reductionist representations of a minority racial group often wholly defining members of the groups by a small number of characteristics. In this case, Dylann was stereotyping these black parishioners as inferior individuals by writing a 2,500-word essay that complained bitterly about black crime, citing incidents described on the website of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group. As media has displayed African Americans to be violent, dangerous criminals in the eyesz of the public, it has caused not only Dylann but countless people to feel this about them. If a black person were to kill someone or do some act of violence, they are labeled as a ‘thug”, another stereotype about African

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