naomi and me!

http://www.ethnicmajority.com/media_home.htm http://www.iaiachronicle.org/archives/media.html
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/press.asp?section=news&id=110
http://www.feminist.com/askamy/media/
http://the.ricethresher.org/ae/2007/03/30/diversity_and_disney
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/index.cfm
http://www.philosophersnet.com/cafe/archive_article.php?id=37&name=provocations
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Mar/20070329News011.asp
http://fun.familyeducation.com/television/african-americans/35259.html
nytimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/arts/television/30heff.html?fta=y
ugly betty!-http://flowtv.org/?p=92


northern exposure- http://imdb.com/title/tt0098878/

Wanted: Dead or Alive, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Daniel Boon and The Virginian among them-but he also appeared on Cannon, Love, American Style and even the Brady Bunch.


timeline!!

black presidents in tv?


black=comic relief
accents in disney=bad guys


http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/217546/results


She told BlackAmericaWeb.com she was puzzled that “Everybody Hates Chris,” which she says was “successful and heavily promoted last year” is coming on at 7 p.m. on Sunday this season -- “not prime time.”
“It’s the same old game: Negro Night, ghettoizing shows. It’s as if they are being lumped together as an afterthought. Sunday night is a good TV night, but it’s bizarre they are all on the same night. It’s like they are just getting it over with. It’s strange.”

A generation ago, NBC had to cancel The Nat King Cole Show because sponsors would not pay for blacks on TV

Whites, for one thing, are seen in the widest possible variety of shows on TV—dramatic programs, adventures, news specials, sitcoms and so on. (The quality of comedies about whites is occasionally better too: witness The Mary Tyler Moore Show.) Blacks, on the other hand, inhabit a restricted range of TV formats; apart from their roles as local newspersons and a peppering of parts on integrated shows (a smart detective on Police Woman, for example), they are mostly seen in situation comedies. from: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916047-2,00.html

also from that ^
The ultimate meaning of color resides in the nation's mind in the images that whites and blacks have of one another, and that blacks have of themselves. The young, black and white, absorb too much of their social "reality" from television. The people who create TV's fantasies are, God help us, molding minds.
That is why they should be more careful.

most black shows on the cw on sunday!


i realize its hard to do specifically black shows, asian shows, pakistani shows etc in american because the people of that culture feel as if they are being represented oftentimes eithr way; being portrayed as out of place and struggling thourhg life in amercas culture, or being of middle to upper class in america, becuase many realy people of those ethnicities cannot relate.
always in the projects;if not, may be offended

The only network tv show (that I remember) that had an Asian family was this sitcom on ABC called "All-American Girl" starring Margaret Cho, that aired around '95. It stayed on for about maybe four episodes before it was cancelled.

all black shows and clickable links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_sitcom

Arts of Democracy; week 2 Quarter 2 blog.

This week I have been thinking about who I want to become the next president.

Before I begin doing too much research on the candidates this year, I would like to say that up to this point, I really want Obama or Clinton to win, just because of the fact that Hilary is female and Barack is black. I feel that we need to step outside of the stereotypical way of thinking about our president.

Although I wish it was that simple to pick a president that I will vote for based on their culture or gender, I definately know that this is not really the right thing to do. So, I need to learn a lot more about each of the candidates on both the democratic and republican side, though I am sure that I am a democrat. In order to choose who I think would be the best candidate, I definately need to do more research on all of the presidential candidates this year.

Arts of Democracy; week 1 Quarter 2 blog.

So...I have decided to keep track of the presidential candidates of 2008 for this quarters blogs.
Each week I will post new finding about each of the candidates, and things about them that I do or do not like.
Seeing as I am legally able to vote for the 2008 elections, I think this would be a great thing for me to blog about.

To begin, I'll just post some facts about a few of the top running candidates;
all information from http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/

Clinton: democrat, lawyer/u.s. senator, currently a senator from New York
Romney: republican, businessman
Edwards: democrat, Trial Lawyer, Director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity
Thompson: republican, actor, lawyer, and lobbyist, actor on "law and order"
Mccain: republican, military officer, polititian, senater from Arizona
Obama: democrat, lawyer, senator from Illinois
Huckabee: republican, businessman, baptist minister
Giuliani: republican, lawyer, business man, consultant