Links about racism in the media
It’s not an academic favorite, but it’s chalked full of
information and can lead you to other sources if you look at the cited sources
at the bottom of a Wikipedia page. I plan to use this for finding other
sources, in-depth definitions and maybe a bit of history.
News:
Searching for racism in major news sites will allow me to
stay up to date on what a major portion of my potential readers may also be
tuned in to and thus allow me to speak to those readers and comment on what
they might be hearing or reading. It will definitely not hurt to have multiple
news sources to draw from while blogging. I would hope that the news sources
that I use would have some contrast between them so as to have more
perspectives to choose from on a similar story. There isn’t a “racism” section
on these sites, but I could easily type it into their search bars to find some
stories.
This is a progressive website that takes the latest conservative
misinformation and tries to expose it and correct it. They cover a lot more
topics than those related to race, but one could easily search for keyword “race”
and narrow down the latest stories. I think this is important and it could be
very interesting to respond to a few of these stories. For instance they very
recently posted a short clip from Fox News about Serena Williams throwing a “tantrum”
and suggesting that it might have had a “racial undertone.” This is definitely
not ok, but at the same time it could be argued that this website is slanting
Fox News’ misinformation by giving this clip a title about race when only the
last few seconds mentioned it (but this is for another post).
Blogs:
This is a blog by some published magazine writers who
comment on all things pop culture—from video games to youtube videos to
interracial dating (and that’s just pulled from the latest posts). But they don’t
just talk about pop culture in general; as the name suggests, they talk about
these things and also explore the elements of racism that they might be related
to. I hope to create posts in a similar manner, but on topics of my choice and
from my point of view.
This was a great find for my blog. The “about me” section
explains how the contributors of this blog come from academic backgrounds and
further explains that their findings are backed by evidence. I would think it
safe to say that citing from this site would be like citing some ‘experts’ on
this matter from an academic perspective.
