and providing them the critical skills necessary to deconstruct dominant media narra-tives.
How are these "critical skills" different from the critical lens we ask our students to apply to traditional texts?
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triage, self-care, healing, and social transfor-mation.
Are we talking about mindsets, skills, resources or all of the above?
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Desensitization of brutal violence and death of Black people, such as seeing video clips on social media of those who were murdered in real-time (e.g., LaQuan McDonald, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile) become part of the normal order of business.
I imagine there are people who would argue in favor of spreading these images across social media to inform and educate those who would deny such events even taking place... I wonder how facts and information could be disseminated in a way that is humanizing and respectful to victims and their families but still calls out police brutality and violence towards people of color.
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These same adjectives and verbal markers are not typically coupled with White people who engage in riots following sporting events and festivities.8
Reminds me of the president's now-infamous comment blaming both sides for Charlottesville... perfectly infuriating example of this double standard in action.
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ase of 12-year-old shooting victim Tamir Rice, who was killed by police in Cleveland, Ohio. Unfortunately, Rice was not viewed as “a boy playing with a toy in the park, but a Black male with a gun” (O’Malley, 2014). Many me-dia outlets characterized Rice as “big for his age,” as if this was a sufficient reason for the cause of his death.
Also true in the case of Trayvon Martin... George Zimmerman apparently thought he was in his 20's when Trayvon was only 17.
Check out this op-ed in NYT by Robin Bernstein about constructions of childhood, especially the mentions of Uncle Tom's Cabin characters. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/opinion/black-kids-discrimination.html
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Houck faulted her for the attack, which is troublesome but unsurprising, given mainstream media’s coverage of brutality against Black bodies.
"mainstream media" constructs narratives that vilify certain groups or populations. How might construction of anti-Black narratives connect to Islamophobia post-9/11?
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