What is the box reflecting?
Dec. 8th, 2010 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI mentioned to my mom a few months ago that I'd never seen so many African-American actors on television before President Obama's win & inauguration. This includes commercials. In fact, I mean to emphasize commercials.
I make this observation while having written an essay for one of my American Studies courses wherein I analyzed a random sampling of commercials in 1997 for race & sex representations. I don't have the paper handy (it's packed up somewhere, as are most of my belongings), but the prevalence of the actors in question is much higher, all across the board.
As blacks are about 13% of the population, at least 13% of randomly sampled commercials should feature them.
I wonder what will happen when Obama leaves office.
I make this observation while having written an essay for one of my American Studies courses wherein I analyzed a random sampling of commercials in 1997 for race & sex representations. I don't have the paper handy (it's packed up somewhere, as are most of my belongings), but the prevalence of the actors in question is much higher, all across the board.
As blacks are about 13% of the population, at least 13% of randomly sampled commercials should feature them.
I wonder what will happen when Obama leaves office.