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"Black Male" Imagery and Media Containment of African American Men
Author(s) -
Page Heláan E.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1997.99.1.99
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , subjectivity , african american , black male , privilege (computing) , gender studies , history , sociology , political science , ethnology , law , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , epistemology , gene
Authorized media agents subject African American men to media surveillance. Black male media imagery of the 1980s facilitates their containment in the 1990s. Our national seeing "eye" compels whites to evaluate African American men in terms of imagery that makes them either negative and unembraceable or positive and embraceable. Black male imagery that African Americans consider positive may be deemed unembraceable by white media agents. The black male imagery they produce contains African American men's subjectivity in white public space, defending white privilege in the process.