Latin lovers. Jewish American princesses. Black athletes. Dumb blondes. Shushing librarians.

All stereotypes, and while we may say we don’t believe in stereotypes, they’re pervasive in our culture.

Watch the DVD Shattering Stereotypes: How Popular Culture Vilifies the Cultural Other and attend the discussion on Saturday, March 25, sponsored by our campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. What stereotypes would you like to see shattered?

 
March 2006

 

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, ed.  Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out.  HQ1170 .S463 2005

Benshoff, Harry M. and Sean Griffin.  America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies  PN1995.9 .M56 B46 2004

George, Nelson.  Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture  ML3479 .G44 2001

Inness, Sherrie A., ed.  Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture.   P94.5 .W652 U614 2004

Kitch, Carolyn.  The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media   P94.5 .W652 U655 2001

Lester, Paul Martin, ed.  Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media.  P96 .S74 I45 1996

MacDonald, J. Fred.  Blacks and White TV: Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948  PN1992.8 .A34 M3 1983

Macrae, C. Neil, Charles Stangor & Miles Hewstone.  Stereotypes and Stereotyping.  BF323 .S63 M33 1996

Manga, Julie Engel.  Talking Trash: The Cultural Politics of Daytime TV Talk Shows.  PN1992.8 .T3 M36 2003

Pitman, Joanna.  On Blondes  GT6737 P58x 2003

Prasso, Sheridan.  The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient.  HQ1726 .P73 2005

Rodriguez, Clara E.  Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood.  PN1995.9 .H47 R63 2004

Salinas, Moises F.  The Politics of Stereotype: Psychology and Affirmative Action  LC212.42 .S35 2003

Schneider, David J.  The Psychology of Stereotyping.  BF323 .S63 S36 2004

Shaheen, Jack G.  Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People     PN1995.9 .A68 S54 2001

Shattering Stereotypes: How Popular Culture Vilifies the Cultural Other.  DVD.  E169.12 .P644x 2005 part 3

Stromberg, Fredrik.  Black Images in the Comics: A Visual History.  PN6725 .S77x 2003

Swann, William B., Jr., Judith H. Langlois, and Lucia Albino Gilbert.  Sexism and Stereotypes in Modern Society: The Gender Science of Janet Taylor Spence.  HQ1075 .S4948 1999

Turner, Patricia A.  Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture.  P94.5 .A372 U578 2002

Williams, Christine L., ed.  Doing "Women's Work": Men in Nontraditional Occupations  HD6060.6 .D65 1995

Wonham, Henry B.  Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism   PS374 .R32 W66 2004

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