Race and ethnicity are not only physical attributes of people, but also ways
of seeing and understanding the world.
● Media plays an influential role in shaping how we think about and enact race
in our everyday lives.
● In the United States and other Western Contexts, whites have historically
been associated with superiority and privilege; people of color have
historically been associated with inferiority and labeled as the "Other" in
society.
● Our society has made progress in dealing with racial discrimination, but
inequality and injustice still remain, and the media is a key site where these
ideas persist.