African Americans in Contemporary Media Landscape
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For a long time in the history of America, African Americans were considered to be inferior to their white counterparts and, therefore, suffered the consequences of racial segregation.... African american women, for example, have been presented in mainstream media as being big, loud, unreliable and mean mammies (Ramasubramanian, 2010).... In many cases, the African american is always depicted as being servile, simpleminded, slow witted, primitive, drug addicts, poor, aggressive, criminal, overweight (for females), lazy, athletic, gifted to make music, and religious as noted by the M3 Foundation (n....