Stuart Hall, The Whites of Their Eyes: racist ideologies and the media. (Roz Bocker)

Rosalyn Bocker
9/10/2007
WGS 220-05
Stuart Hall, The Whites of Their Eyes: racist ideologies and the media.
(89-93).

Description:
• Media uses racist ideologies (images/concepts that are used to
interpreted/understand the "other") (89)
Analysis:
• Ideologies are not separate ideas, but "chains" of meanings (89)
• We work within pre-existing ideologies to explain social relationships
and our place in them (90)
• Ideologies "work" b/c they give "knowledge/basis for identification" to
use as truths (90)
• Media portrays events/situations involving race, unquestionably assumed
as true (91)
• Uses symbols (thinly veiled) such as the slave, the native, the clown (91)
Vision: Not Stated

Strategy: Not Stated