The topic of this paper is about the show “Modern Family” about how they imply racism under the name of satire and analyze it sociologically using the critical approach(which points out that mass culture creates standardized beliefs and controls the society, modern family has delivered racial stereotypes to people watching the show) with a theme of racism.
This bibliography paper should contain two question : What are the main arguments of the text? How will this text help you address your topic?
3 Sources you need to use :
1)Television Viewing, Racial Attitudes, and Policy Preferences: Exploring the Role of Social Identity and Intergroup Emotions in Influencing Support for Affirmative Action (http://www.academia.edu/257149/Television_Viewing_Racial_Attitudes_and_Policy_Preferences_Exploring_the_Role_of_Social_Identity_and_Intergroup_Emotions_In_Influencing_Support_for_Affirmative_Action)
2) Race and Reality TV: Tryin’ to Make It Real-but Real Compared to What? (I couldn’t find the full text in google. Here is an Abstract : Squires comments on how television continues to try to manage and exploit race in a changing industrial and demographic environment. She reveals that upon reading all the critical analyses about race and reality programming, she was struck by the extent to which these RTV shows borrow from and depend upon racial conventions and constructions from other genres: news, talk shows, sitcoms, and soap operas all provide easily accessible types, plot points, and stereotypes for producers and editors to use when shaping their preferred readings of how “real people” deal with racism, or embody racial identities. For these reasons, she stresses that as viewers compare their reality to those processed on TV, people need a keener sense of what the salient comparisons are, and how those interactions shape racial realities in the world.)
3) Modern Family: “It’s not racist, it’s satire” (http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-515235)
