{"id":8214,"date":"2023-03-05T20:52:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/media-questions\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T20:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T20:52:43","slug":"media-questions","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/media-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"media questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a news media multi-part question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I have an assignment that I need help completing. Below I have given the directions as well as any information you may need. Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>In our Omi &amp; Winant reading for this week, they use the Phipp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153illustrate the difficulty of defining race and assigning individuals or groups to racial categories.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Omi &amp; Winant say the following about race:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>racial legacies of the past continue to shape our present<\/li>\n<li>not a problem for science that can be disavowed as archaic<\/li>\n<li>not a problem for US society that can be legislated away as had hoped with the civil rights legislation of the 1960s<\/li>\n<li>Rather, a fundamental means by which US society is institutionally structured and understood<\/li>\n<li>racial identification is both a choice and not a choice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimately, Omi and Winant argue that race is a matter of skin color and, therefore, a dimension of human representation. So how does this representation take form through racial formation and racial projects? For your assignment, how is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153n\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd word (for those of us who are not from the US the n-word is a stand-in for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nigger\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd) an example of the socio-historical process of racial formation and a racial project.<\/p>\n<p>For a bit more context, we can look back at June 2017, when Bill Maher (host of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO) used the N-word &#8220;jokingly&#8221; and received a huge backlash from the public. In this clip, Ice Cube and Symone Sanders respond on the show and give us some first-hand feelings and thoughts on the use of this word. (contains strong language) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3cmediasolutions.org\/f\/840b329e1f99afde483b83098130acdf33bdc28f?i=1\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cli<\/a>p<\/p>\n<p>Please use the following questions to help you think through a response: What was this word created for? How was it inhabited? How was it transformed? How was it destroyed or has it been? How does the word offer a representation\/explanation of racial dynamics?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a news media multi-part question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn. Hello, I have an assignment that I need help completing. Below I have given the directions as well as any information you may need. Thanks and let me know if you have any questions. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[821],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}