Black Masculinity Research Paper
In the United States, the inequality of many different types of races and genders is very clear. Many people are treated unjustly whether it's from the police, the judicial system, or society itself. A lot of people are prejudiced towards others because of their appearance, skin tone, or who they are and it's a very serious problem. The media that we have today is arguably being used as a tool to make certain groups of people look inferior to others. Many people feel this way because of events that have happened in the last few years across the country from Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown repeatedly being depicted as thugs in the news to racist advertisements in the 1900s. Black masculinity is being manipulated by the media to fit a certain
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Iverson and Tawanna, his wife, got into an argument and she went to a hotel for a night with Allen lverson's cousin. Allen and his uncle went to look for Tawanna so they searched Allen’s cousin's house and confronted the cousin’s roommate with the uncle's gun (Brown, Timothy J. 73). The way the media portrayed him to the world was described in Timothy Brown's 'Allen Iverson as America's Most Wanted: Black Masculinity as a Cultural Site of Struggle.' Brown writes, "The media coverage of the Iverson incident was not only biased, but it implicitly constructed an image of Iverson as a menacing person whom people should fear" (73). Almost every article and piece of news written about Iverson had something negative in it. Whenever the media outlets wrote about him, they included at least a sentence to a paragraph about something negative in Iverson’s life that was not specifically related to the incident at Iverson’s cousin’s apartment. Brown writes, "When the incident was being discussed, most articles reviewed lverson's past record which included being arrested (as a high school student)" (73). This was very irrelevant to the subject at hand. A lot of outlets were trying to get more people to read their articles by causing controversy around his name. They wanted to portray Iverson as a ‘thug,’ or someone to be
Iverson and Tawanna, his wife, got into an argument and she went to a hotel for a night with Allen lverson's cousin. Allen and his uncle went to look for Tawanna so they searched Allen’s cousin's house and confronted the cousin’s roommate with the uncle's gun (Brown, Timothy J. 73). The way the media portrayed him to the world was described in Timothy Brown's 'Allen Iverson as America's Most Wanted: Black Masculinity as a Cultural Site of Struggle.' Brown writes, "The media coverage of the Iverson incident was not only biased, but it implicitly constructed an image of Iverson as a menacing person whom people should fear" (73). Almost every article and piece of news written about Iverson had something negative in it. Whenever the media outlets wrote about him, they included at least a sentence to a paragraph about something negative in Iverson’s life that was not specifically related to the incident at Iverson’s cousin’s apartment. Brown writes, "When the incident was being discussed, most articles reviewed lverson's past record which included being arrested (as a high school student)" (73). This was very irrelevant to the subject at hand. A lot of outlets were trying to get more people to read their articles by causing controversy around his name. They wanted to portray Iverson as a ‘thug,’ or someone to be