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Racial Stereotypes And Segregation In Popular Media
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QWeekend - Kazuto Komatsu

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Thesis: Popular media clearly pronounce a number of racial stereotypes and segregation in many types of sport.
Argument 1
“Remember the Titans” produced by Jerry Bruckheimer represents a number of racial stereotypes and segregations through popular media. This is clearly evident as the three scene from the movie.
1. The racial stereotypes and segregations have been represented in the scene when the blacks join in the whites AFL team.
2. As the movie plays the scene where blacks go to white school, it shows the racial stereotypes of coloured people usually don’t go to white school and segregations as there was exclusive busses to the each race.
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