Date of Award
Spring 2022
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
First Advisor
Kenneth Campbell
Abstract
This dissertation presents a Critical Race Conceptual Model of Implicit Racial Bias to representations of African Americans in mass media to illustrate how stereotypical depictions and racist ideologies arise in media content, including by Black content creators. By bridging the concepts of implicit bias, framing theory and concepts from critical race theory through the conceptual model, I contend that content creators implicitly share racially biased beliefs. Moreover, Black content creators in expressing the authentic experiences of the Black community also do the same. Thus, Black content creators further stereotypes, majoritarian narratives as well as deficit perspectives about the Black community while defining Blackness for outside groups. I apply my Critical Race Conceptual Model of Implicit Racial Bias to illustrate how implicit racial bias reveals itself in three different types of content created by varied Black media content creators: Kendrick Lamar’s album DAMN., Black sports columns in Andscape and in my journalistic coverage on the Black community.
Rights
© 2022, Christina Lauren Myers
Recommended Citation
Myers, C. L.(2022). “Power, Poison, Pain & Joy”: Applying a Critical Race Conceptual Model of Implicit Racial Bias to Narratives Framing Blackness in Black Sports Columns, Black Music, and Black Journalism. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/6542