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Race And Media

Race and the Media: Evaluating "I Think I Love My Wife"

Reading "Screen Saviors" affirmed many of the thoughts I have often had about the effect of media on mainstream attitudes towards race. According to article, "Americans spend 1577 hours in front of the television, 13 hours in the movie theater, and 55 hours watching pre-recorded videos (Vera and Gordon 2003:8)." With twenty eight percent of our waking time being spent absorbing daytime soap operas, movies, reality series, and comedies, we cannot deny that the images portrayed somehow shape our views on a myriad of subjects (Vera and Gordon 2003).
It is true that the concept of "whiteness" if often unexplored until it is compared alongside a person of color (Vera and Gordon 2003:10-11). In my opinion, white people, not necessarily Caucasians (because within the spectrum are groups that are not "white" per se), do not face the same scrutiny in their character roles. I watch frequent movies in which an actor like Adam......


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