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Resources:Racial and Ethnic Relations and Racial and Ethnic Groups

Select a movie, television show, commercial, or other form of media that includes racial or ethnic issues. The following websites contain media you can use. You may also select a piece of media not found in these collections.

The Prelinger Archives located at http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger, which houses television ads and shows from the 1940s and 1950s

Movie archives located at http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Write a 500- to 750- word analysis where you identify how your selected media example addresses gender and stereotypes.

• Explain how stereotypes are portrayed in the media and your response to these stereotypes.

Answer the following questions:

• What time period was your media made in? What time period is it about?
• Was one character portrayed as a victim? Was this character playing a stereotypical role?
• What roles, major or minor, were racial or ethnic minorities assigned?
• What issues of race and ethnicity are addressed?
• For older media pieces, how would the racial issues you identified be addressed today?

SOC 262 SOC262 Week 5 Assignment Media and Race