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While we hear much about the "culture of poverty" that keeps poor black men poor, we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream. Moving beyond stereotypes, this book examines how twenty-six poverty-stricken African American men from Chicago view their prospects for getting ahead. It documents their definitions of good jobs and the good life--and their beliefs about whether and how these can be attained. In its pages, we meet men who think seriously about work, family, and community and whose differing experiences shape their views of their social world.

Based on intensive interviews, the book reveals how these men have experienced varying degrees of exposure to more-privileged Americans--differences that ground their understandings of how racism and socioeconomic inequality determine their life chances. The poorest and most socially isolated are, perhaps surprisingly, most likely to believe that individuals can improve their own lot. By contrast, men who regularly leave their neighborhood tend to have a wider range of opportunities but also have met with more racism, hostility, and institutional obstacles--making them less likely to believe in the American Dream.

Demonstrating how these men interpret their social world, this book seeks to de-pathologize them without ignoring their experiences with chronic unemployment, prison, and substance abuse. It shows how the men draw upon such experiences as they make meaning of the complex circumstances in which they strive to succeed.

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The lives of black men in the US have long been adversely affected by negative public perceptions. We are often turned away from jobs because we are not the "right fit". While on the streets, we are regularly treated by police as dangerous suspects. Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, described their alleged tussle by testifying: "when I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan," even though the two men had the same height.

In a 2011 study, Media Representations & Impact on the Lives of Black Men and Boys, conducted by The Opportunity Agenda, negative mass media portrayals were strongly linked with lower life expectations among black men. These portrayals, constantly reinforced in print media, on television, the internet, fiction shows, print advertising and video games, shape public views of and attitudes toward men of color. They not only help create barriers to advancement within our society, but also "make these positions seem natural and inevitable".

Not much has changed since the 1970s when, as an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, I conducted a study of two metropolitan Detroit dailies' coverage of the 1967 urban riots. Pouring over those yellowing pages of archival newsprint, I discovered notable examples of blatant bias, misrepresentations of facts and poorly substantiated claims about particulars of acts of violence. In 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders reviewed coverage of the 1967 riots and faulted many newspapers for their "exaggeration of both mood and event" and "fail[ing] to report adequately on the causes and consequences of civil disorders and on the underlying problems of race relations." The report went on to say: "They have not communicated to the majority of their audience - which is white - a sense of the degradation, misery and hopelessness of life in the ghetto."

The Opportunity Agenda study also shows that these media distortions are multi-faceted, especially relative to real-world facts. For example, there is an overall under-representation of black men as 'talking head' experts, users of luxury items in print ads and as reliable and relatable characters with fully developed backgrounds in fiction shows and films. Overwhelming evidence exists of exaggerated associations of African-American men to drug-related crime, unemployment and poverty. "The idle black male on the street corner is not the 'true face' of poverty in America, but is the dominant one in the world as depicted by the media", according to the study's executive summary. Too many stories associate black men with intractable problems.

Men of color held in esteem by the media, while entirely worthy of praise, too often personify a circumscribed spectrum of human qualities. Prowess in sports, physical achievement in general and musicality are emphasized inordinately. Common role models depicted by the media such as rap or hip-hop stars and basketball players imply limited life choices. When is the last time you have seen a black college professor, doctor, lawyer or scientist selling a product? Many important dynamics that affect black lives, such as a history of economic disadvantage and a prevailing anti-black bias in society, don't often make it to the presses or the screens.

The Opportunity Agenda study, funded by the Open Society Foundation's Campaign for Black Male Achievement, also showed how these media misrepresentations create problematic attitudes in audiences, not the least of which being a persistent antagonism toward black men.

What we are also seeing play out among both white and black people is a hyped view of black boys and men being coupled with criminality and violence, a lack of empathy for black men and boys in trouble, less attention being paid to the bigger picture of social and economic disparity and increased public support of more rigorous approaches to social ills, such as police aggression and longer jail sentences.

In 2012, professor of political science, Bas W van Doorn at the College of Wooster in Ohio, analyzed images that ran with about 474 domestic US poverty-related stories in Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report from 1992 to 2010. In the images that ran alongside those stories in print, black people were overrepresented, appearing in more than half of the images, despite the fact that they made up only a quarter of people existing below the poverty line during that time frame.

Media images and words are known, according to the Opportunity Agenda study, to have the greatest impact on the perceptions of people with less real-world experience. People who have never interacted with a black family in their communities more easily embrace what the media tells them. The most negative impact is upon black individuals themselves. Derogatory portrayals can demoralize and reduce self-esteem. In worst case scenarios, black boys and men actually internalize biases and stereotypes and, through their behavior, reinforce and even perpetuate the misrepresentations. They become victims of perception.

Not only does the media's reluctance to provide more balanced perspectives of our African-American male population worsen cultural division among all people, it enables judges to hand out harsher sentences, companies to deny jobs, banks to decline loans and the police to shoot indiscriminately. The mass media is certainly aware of its vast power to shape popular ideas, opinions and attitudes. They should become equally cognizant of their role as a mechanism of social change for the better of all.

Liberal sprinklings of black achievement are not enough to offset an uneven emphasis on the failure of black men. Besides working to eliminate obstacles to African-Americans entering newsroom and television positions, editors must start listening more closely to black constituencies, African-American TV and radio station managers, journalists, film producers and learning from their perspectives.

All media can and should choose words, images and news angles that give a fuller, more nuanced narrative of African-American men, as well as black history, culture and life in America, as a whole. People of color are individuals, not types.

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When the media misrepresents black men, the effects are felt in the real world | Leigh Donaldson

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The lives of black men in the US have long been adversely affected by negative public perceptions. We are often turned away from jobs because we are not the "right fit". While on the streets, we are regularly treated by police as dangerous suspects.

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If Obama, the man who once held the highest position we have, is middle class then what is everyone else

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This is a documentary about what poverty is really like for most people in America. Many people have very narrow views of what it means to be in poverty and this aims to show people that you can be working or living in a home or going to college and still struggle financially to the point where you do not have enough money for the necessities.

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In this show the family is supposed to be normal middle class, but they are really more upper middle class.

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This shows views that upper class females have nothing better to do than to be catty towards one another while the men work.

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This show does not represent the lower class correctly because most people in the lower class are working tirelessly to get money.

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The media is connecting a race to an action. When a Muslim sees this they would feel as though their destinies are set for them.

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The media is showing girls they need to be perfect and if they aren't they need to strive to be unrealistically skinny.

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Negative Effects of the Misrepresentation of Women in the Media

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Making women sexual figures takes away the power the athletes have. Meanwhile the men are dressed in their uniforms representing their teams not their body's.

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These two little boys are ron the cover representing making a change, but instead of wearing a suit and tie they are wearing a sweatsuit.

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Media only shows them being one thing. Criminals. In reality they are so much more.

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Black Implies Crime & Crime Implies Black

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Black Men in America - Media Images- Clip.flv

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70% of ciminals in America are white, but TV shows disproportionately prortray black men (only 6% of the american population) as the primary criminals and violent offenders without fail - First 48, Local News, Etc. Don't believe the hype!

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When a women is strong and independent media finds ways to take her down. She is being a leader and that has nothing to do with her husband.

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Women are often told that they are not enough through media. As the video below mentions, girls are often feeling not enough because they are constantly seeing unrealistic women.

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When a women is in a leader position the media talks about her looks instead of her actions. As the governor, it doesn't matter what she looks like.

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"Stereotyping female athletes as attractive and feminine shifts attention from their psychical prowess to their looks and minimizes the symbolic threat sportswomen pose to male hegemony." (182)

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When comparing the two, it is evident that men and women are not represented in the same way