Stereotypes Of The Media In Bell Hooks's 'Writing Beyond Race'

“Writing Beyond Race” Chapter 9 Talking Trash After waking up in the morning we get dressed, make our coffee and sit down to watch the morning news. Some of us check our phones for the latest updates or some of read the newspaper. We drive to and from work reading bill boards and listening to the radio. We come home from the long day we had and turn on the television for some down time. We are constantly influenced by media no matter what we are doing. In most cases, not in a positive way. We see lots of racism and even sexism although we look past it. Media unfortunately can hurt us rather than help us. Media has a negative effective on the world we live in today because it paints the picture of white supremacy and creates stereotypes. For example, the author of “Writing Beyond Race” Bell Hooks gives us a detailed explanation on how a movie that was considered to bring out

Many times people think that woman cannot do or understand what a man can. There are many woman who do things just a great as a man. If you think about the advertisement of an alcoholic beverage you think of a woman in a little bikini drinking the beverage. It would be extremely unusual to see a man in a bathing suit doing what the woman does. Women are looked at as beautiful objects rather than intelligent and useful. There are many different stereotypes that we see every day that the media pounds into our brain and we must unlearn them. I have demonstrated that media has a negative effect on our world today by the way it sets our thinking of stereotypes and the way it portrays white supremacy. Racism and sexism will continue to exist until people see the truth behind what is being shown to us every day. We will never be able to truly unlearn racism and sexism until we take a step back and come to terms with these difficult problems and try to come up with solutions instead of continuing to promote this