Univ. of Pennsylvania professors discuss media’s alleged anti-black bias

Univ. of Pennsylvania professors discuss media’s alleged anti-black bias

• At a virtual event this past Monday, several University of Pennsylvania academics chatted about the prevalence of racial bias in the media.

"...Annenberg School for Communication Dean John Jackson Jr. ...“We often only are able to translate racial dynamics into representations that are hard and fast — good guys over here with white hats, and the bad guys over there with black hats on full time,” the dean said. The media has been part of creating “racialized violence, racial segregation, [and] racial stereotypes.”

Both Miller and Jackson Jr. noted that since networks are “largely controlled by white men,” they have substantial influence over what Americans see and hear. Jackson said we “must dismantle” the bias which been “built in, [and] serves powerful constituencies and serves institutional inequalities.”...Read all.