This list of resources emerged through the course I developed and teach at Raritan Valley Community College, “Race in American Literature and Popular Culture.”

Overviews

• “Can Art Amend History?” TED Talk by Titus Kaphar
• Reports “Moving the Race Conversation Forward” created by Race Forward, downloadable here: www.raceforward.org/research/reports/moving-race-conversation-forward. They include Part 1, “How the Media Covers Racism, and Other Barriers to Productive Racial Discourse” and Part 2, “Racial Discourse Change in Practice,” which uses case studies to analyze action.
• “The Revolution Will Be Televised: How Social Justice Advocates Can Leverage the Promise of Pop Culture to Create Real Change”
• “Race in the Writers’ Room” (report)
• Harris, Aisha. “Same Old Script: On screen, TV is more diverse than ever. Why aren’t writing staffs catching up?” Slate
• “The Diversity Gap in the Academy Awards.”
• “How Shows Like ‘Will & Grace’ And ‘Black-ish’ Can Change Your Brain.”
• “Viola Davis Gives Powerful Speech About Diversity and Opportunity: Emmys 2015.”
• “Does Your Favorite Movie Pass the ‘DuVernay Test’?”
• “What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood* (*If you’re not a straight white man.)”
• “25 Times White Actors Played People Of Color And No One Really Gave A S**t”

Specific stereotypes

• “Why Won’t Hollywood Cast Asian Actors?” New York Times. See also the corresponding slideshow: “Whitewashing, a Long History.” New York Times.
• “Asian-American Actors Are Fighting for Visibility. They Will Not Be Ignored.”
• “John Cho, Sulu of ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ Navigates a Beckoning Universe”
• “The Invisible Asian”
• “7 Things About Native Americans You’ll Never Learn From the Mainstream Media.”
• “5 Common Native American Stereotypes in Film and Television.”
• “Native Americans: Negative impacts of media portrayals, stereotypes”
• “The Impact of Media Stereotypes on Opinions and Attitudes Towards Latinos.” National Hispanic Media Coalition
• “The Latino Media Gap: A Report on the State of Latinos in U.S. Media”
• “The Latino Disconnect: Latinos in the Age of Media Mergers” (report)
• Media Moves: Covering Latinos in the Media Industry
• Leguizamo, John. “‘Too Bad You’re Latin.’”
• “Latinos Onscreen, Conspicuously Few.”
• The music video for the song “Soy Yo” [That’s Me] by the band Bomba Estéreo features an eleven-year-old Latina girl, Sarai Gonzalez, who is directly engaging with what it means to be a Latina girl. This article gives some context: Correaloct, Annie. “Declaring ‘That’s Me,’ and Empowering Latinas.” New York Times.
• “Latino, Black And Middle-Eastern Immigrants Portrayed As Criminals On TV”
• “Can Television Be Fair to Muslims?”
• “In Year of Anti-Muslim Vitriol, Brands Promote Inclusion”
• “A Dangerous Distortion of Our Families” (report) and related article “News media offers consistently warped portrayals of black families, study finds” 
• “Black Dads Are Doing Best of All”
• “Kerry Washington and Aziz Ansari: ‘Every Industry Is So White,’ Not Just Hollywood”
• “Warsan Shire, the Woman Who Gave Poetry to Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’”
• “The Star of the Original ‘Roots’ Explains Why the Remake Is Must-Watch Television”
• “Black Men Are Not Lethal Weapons”
• “The Presumption of Dangerousness Behind Police Abuse of Black People”
• (my article) “‘Standing in the Sun’: ‘Scandal’ in the Age of ‘The New Jim Crow'”

Action

• Weird Enough Productions
• RAPtivism
• Color of Change
• CoCre.TV (Color Creative)
• Center for Media Justice
• 1Hood Media
• Center for Asian American Media
• Unbound: Pop Culture for Social Change
• “With Joyful Photos, a 19-Year-Old Artist Confronts Media Bias Against Black Male Teens”
• “Ta-Nehisi Coates on Creating Black Superheroes”
• “Film Academy Broadens Voting Pool After Oscars Criticism”
• “Drop the I Word Campaign” (Race Forward)

This document Media Social Action Assignment Fall 16 Gaffney includes the instructions I provided to my students for this final paper. (Note that this course is a 200-level literature elective that fulfills General Education requirements in NJ.)