Addicted to Race 94: missing black children
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s podcast about America’s obsession with race. Here’s a rundown of what you’ll find in this episode:
Why don’t black children garner the same kind of media attention white children do when they go missing? What does it say about how your race determines the value of your life?
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A freelance writer and blogger with strong opinions, Latoya Peterson writes about the intersections of race and pop culture – but also finds time to discuss video games, anime, manga, gender, feminism, and hip-hop. She currently edits the blog Racialicious and has contributed to Bitch Magazine and the American Prospect. She also contributes to Cerise, the online magazine for girl gamers, and Clutch Magazine.
Duration – 30:06
File Size – 20.7 MB
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Tiffany wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_White_Women_Syndrome
Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS) is a term used for what is alleged to be a disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, and print news reporting of a missing person case involving a white woman, compared with cases concerning non-white individuals.[1][2][3]
The essential features of a missing person said to give rise to Missing White Woman Syndrome are sex, [4] her race, (relative) prettiness, and age. These features are said to provoke positive discrimination in the reporting as news of the disappearance of a white woman, and so to increase public interest in her disappearance.
Posted 20 Aug 2008 at 1:03 pm ¶
Lykathea Erilaz wrote:
It’s because women are upheld as symbolic of racial and thus ‘national’ identity – such as in beauty pageants. A MWW can be the daughter or girlfriend of the idealized (white) audience, while a missing woman of color is regarded as Other, which excludes both people of color and whites in interracial families from the American mainstream.
Posted 21 Aug 2008 at 2:07 am ¶
sHaE-sHaE wrote:
“the misery of diversity training..” Wow. LOL
Interesting podcast.
IMO black children do not get the same media attention because someone somewhere calling the shots doesn’t think missing little black children are newsworthy.
I read Black And Missing (a blog dedicated to missing children of color) and wonder why I haven’t heard of most of these children… it’s a serious eye opener.
Posted 25 Aug 2008 at 12:28 pm ¶
CMyers wrote:
I need your help. I have submitted a proposal–”Media for Change”– to the Ashoka Changemakers “The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media” competition. The organization will award $50,000 to a social enterprise and a non-profit for fund start-ups that use media in innovative ways to make sustainable change. I have proposed a non-profit dedicated to using media and community building to bring more attention to missing persons from minority and low-income communities. I’m sure you all could name of number of high profile missing persons cases. How many of those people are Black? or Latino? or Asian? I would guess none. That’s because there is hardly ever any.
Missing persons from low income and minority groups are rarely given the media attention that Caucasions are given. Often, media coverage spurs investigators and community members to devote more time and energy to finding these missing children. As a result of a lack of media attention, missing minorities receive less attention from investigators, and in general have fewer people looking for them, including volunteer search teams. An organization devoted to spreading the word about these missing individuals is greatly needed. Too often, individuals from minority and/or low-income communities are overlooked and as time passes, they are forgotten. Providing information directly to the media, investigators and community members as soon as individuals are reported missing is essential.
If you feel as strongly about this issue as I do, please read my proposal and vote! The 16 finalists in this competition will be completely based on community feedback, both on a 1-5 rating system and on comments. That is, the more people who vote for me, the more likely this organization will get started! Negative feedback is also welcomed. If you think my proposal is confusing, lacking or otherwise needs to be revamped, please let me know. The great thing about this competition is that we are encouraged to improve our proposals based on community feedback. Please keep in mind that there are word limitations for each section of the proposal.
>>>>>Competition Framework<<<<>>>>My proposal<<<<<
http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/14377
My proposal is still very much a work in progress so constructive criticism is truly welcomed. As of now, I am still developing funding options, a budget, timeline and program outline. If you’d like to get involved with this effort, please let me know. The final competition will be held at the We Media conference in Florida in February and I would love to not go it alone!
Please spread the word!
LOVE + HUGS (and many thanks!),
Calisha
calisha.myers@gmail.com
“I was hungry and you formed a committee to investigate my hunger. I was homeless and you filed a report on my plight. I was sick and you held a seminar on the situation of the underprivileged. You investigated all aspects of my plight and yet I am still hungry, homeless and sick.”
Posted 12 Dec 2008 at 5:44 pm ¶