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American Popular Culture as an Instrument of Racial Oppression
The cultural images produced by the media serve to further oppress racialized groups in America and form national psyches which allow America’s institutionalized racism to prosper. Images proposed by the media and popular culture have made claims about all different racialized groups in America. The media has been instrumental in perpetuating ideas about the black male perp, the black male buffoon, all black Americans since the days of slavery as “darkies,” who are content with playing in the mud, Americans of European descent as harmless, safe, and normal, Asian Americans as dangerous, inassimilable aliens, who pose a threat to Americans, the American Indian culture as a joke, and suitable to be applied to American sporting events, and Chicanos/as as criminals, among the other various vicious stereotypes given to the different groups in American society. This paper will discuss the problems of the American......

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