Everything Wrong with Black Representation

This video review everything wrong with black representation historically and reviews how black representation continues to be problematic today despite efforts to be more inclusive in media. Representation in media including print, television, movies, and radio. It is the job of all media to represent Blackness in an efficacious manner, but it often fails to do so. This video reviews the myriad ways in which media representations fail to live up to the diversity, nuance, humanity, and reality of the what described as the Black race of people.

Please, keep in mind this video is an anthology of well documented arguments about things that are wrong with black representation in media. It isn't to be taken as single essay or indicative of the pervasiveness of any of these tropes.

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Table of Contents

00:00 - The Focus
01:08 - Black People Not Existing
02:07 - Historically Racist Black Stereotypes
04:54 - Modern Black Stereotypes
07:58 - Problematic Depictions Intro
08:23 - Black Diversity
12:01 - Black Leadership
13:47 - The OREO Dilemma
16:04 - The Fish Out of Water
17:59 - Black Culture isn't Racism
20:02 - Black and Animated
20:50 - Fin

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