Gender, Race, and Media Representation

Brooks, Dwight E.; Hébert, Lisa P.

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“…a consistent figure in the cinema with his eroticism and suave ways” (Diaz Soto, 2011, p. 20), intermingled, at times, with depictions of aggression and violence (e.g., the Latin American drug runner). Black men are often shown as “inherently angry, potentially violent, and sexually aggressive” (Brooks & Hébert, 2006, p. 306). Consequently, whereas these two minority groups have been depicted as hypermasculine through excessive aggression and violence, Asian American men have been depicted as the opposite: passive and effeminate.…”

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Testing for measurement invariance in the Conformity to Masculine Norms-46 across White and Asian American college men: Development and validity of the CMNI-29.

Hsu

Iwamoto

2014

Psychology of Men & Masculinity

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The Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI; Mahalik et al., 2003) and revised CMNI-46 (Parent & Moradi, 2009) have received a great deal of empirical attention and support for their strong psychometric properties and evidence of construct validity. However, one important area that remains unexplored is how adherence to these masculine norms may vary across race and ethnicity. The current investigation examines the possible racial measurement noninvariance in the CMNI-46 among Asian American and White American college students (N = 893). The results revealed significant measurement differences across groups; specifically, the CMNI-46 was more theoretically consistent for the White American men than the Asian American men. Through exploratory and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, an 8-factor, 29-item version of the CMNI emerged, displaying an excellent overall model fit for both racial groups. This study provides strong evidence for the use of a streamlined 29-item version of the CMNI, validated with Asian American and White American men. The findings also lend further empirical and psychometric evidence regarding the variance of masculine norms among ethnic groups as well as the variance of the multidimensional construct of masculinity.

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Testing for measurement invariance in the Conformity to Masculine Norms-46 across White and Asian American college men: Development and validity of the CMNI-29.

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Iwamoto

2014

Psychology of Men & Masculinity

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“…Popular media is referred to in feminist literature as a structure that reflects, mediates and reinforces normative beliefs about how gender and sexuality should be taken up and performed (e.g. hooks 1992; Brooks & Hébert 2006). Personal devices mean video content cultivates online dialogue and connection among networks of young people, and new media technologies are hosting content that is increasingly integral to young people's social politics, including digital feminisms (Retallack et al 2016, 88).…”

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‘Dear Future Husband’: young people’s critical exploration of gender and sexuality in pop music videos

Scrine

2017

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This study aimed to explore how young people can critically engage with music videos to explore dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. As the primary consumers of popular music and music videos, adolescents are also a group who exist in a unique sociocultural space, where both misogyny and feminism are present in their highly media-driven lives. This study used focus group workshops with young people in high school to generate qualitative data based on the participants’ discussion and interpretations of gender and sexuality in two music videos. Seven groups of young people aged 14 – 16 analysed two popular music videos and reflected particularly upon discourses of expected femininity and female sexuality. Discussion elucidated insightful analysis around gendered subjectivity, and presented three complex and opposing themes, which are explored in detail. A cohesive thread emerged in the data in which young people demonstrated their capacity to identify hegemonic gender constructs, while also relying on these constructs to read and police the women shown in the music videos.

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“…Much of how people come to understand what it means to be a man, woman, black, white, Asian, Latina, masculine, feminine, rural, and urban is shaped and produced by mainstream media [21][22][23]. Ultimately, the media is central to what comes to represent many people's social realities and also central to the spread of ideas worldwide.…”

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Black Twitter: A Response to Bias in Mainstream Media

Lee

2017

Social Sciences

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This paper seeks to shed light on the ways people of color, in the United States, are using social media to challenge racial bias. As part of this investigation, this paper draws on Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, and Digital New Media studies to examine the extent to which social media, while seen as a place for 'play' can also operate as a digital homespace, a space used as a tool for black women and men to (re)construct their bodies and identities, challenging the "controlling images" widespread in mainstream media and society at large. This paper employs the methods of content analysis and participant observation and find that these social media forums are not transformative by themselves but instead have little moments that make for resistance and a digital homespace.

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Gender, Race, and Media Representation

Cited by 92 publications

References 62 publications

Testing for measurement invariance in the Conformity to Masculine Norms-46 across White and Asian American college men: Development and validity of the CMNI-29.

Testing for measurement invariance in the Conformity to Masculine Norms-46 across White and Asian American college men: Development and validity of the CMNI-29.

‘Dear Future Husband’: young people’s critical exploration of gender and sexuality in pop music videos

Black Twitter: A Response to Bias in Mainstream Media

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