#IfTheyGunnedMeDown hits the nail on the head about cognitive bias, violence, and injustice. Insight from Rebecca Hains and Robert E. Browns St Louis Post Dispatch piece: Selecting such unsympathetic photographs to represent young men who have been forever silenced through death - who can never tell their side of the story - is unjust. It also echoes broader patterns in film and television, in which black men are too often depicted not as three-dimensional human beings, but as threatening menaces - a stereotype that media critics and organizations have critiqued for decades, in reports like the Screen Actors Guilds 1993 Women and Minorities in Television and 1998 Casting and Fate. According to experimental studies, this same stereotype causes police officers to make split-second, erroneous decisions to shoot unarmed black men - but not their white counterparts (as reported by B. Keith Payne in Weapon bias: Split-second decisions and unintended stereotyping, published by the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science in 2006). The politics of the medias race representation have real, material consequences for all people, but for black youth, media representation can be a matter of life and death. See campagin photos on IfTheyGunnedMeDown.Tumblr/ or read the rest of Rebecca Hains and Robert E. Browns article here: bit.ly/1nTD3qB
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:11:45 +0000
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