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 ¶