Priming Mammies, Jezebels, and Other Controlling Images: An Examination of the Influence of Mediated Stereotypes on Perceptions of an African American Woman

By Sonja M. Brown Givens, Jennifer L. Monahan. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Trapped between justified anger and being the strong Black woman: Black college women coping with racial battle fatigue at historically and predominantly White institutions (2018, background): “As media-dependency theory argues, mass media effects increase when people are unable to verify stories or information through personal interactions (Brown Givens & Monahan, 2005).”
Shaken and Stirred: A Content Analysis of Women’s Portrayals in James Bond Films (2010, background): “Other studies have considered portrayals of specific female populations defined by race (e.g., BrownGivens andMonahan 2005; Merskin 2007; Nathanson et al. 2002; Taylor and Stern 1997) and by occupation (e.g., Daily and Dalton 2000; Kim et al. 2006).”
Playing With Prejudice: The Prevalence and Consequences of Racial Stereotypes in Video Games (2011, background): “…media stimuli illustrates that priming racial stereotypes result in expected stereotyped decisions about and behavior toward minorities (e.g., Brown Givens & Monahan, 2005), a common belief about game content is that it is irrelevant: Even when college students agreed that portrayal of women…”
Psychological Reactions to Crime News Portrayals of Black Criminals: Understanding the Moderating Roles of Prior News Viewing and Stereotype Endorsement (2006, background): “The activation of stereotypes suggests that a stereotype can be primed by exposure to the relevant social category and then influences subsequent judgments without the perceiver’s conscious awareness (Devine, 1989; Fazio, Jackson, Dunton, & Williams, 1995; Givens & Monahan, 2005 ).”
The Contact Space: A Novel Framework for Intergroup Contact Research (2010, background): “This research draws attention to a major barrier in expecting mass mediated contact to have positive effects on attitudes—if media portrayals of social groups are largely negative, the most likely effects of exposure to such portrayals will be negative (Brown Givens & Monahan, 2005).”
Dose-Dependent Media Priming Effects of Stereotypic Newspaper Articles on Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes (2013, background): “In addition, some studies were only able to document an effect on the implicit, but not on the explicit measure (i.e., implicit–explicit dissociation: Brown Givens & Monahan, 2005; Burgess et al., 2011).”
Activating and Suppressing Hostile and Benevolent Racism: Evidence for Comparative Media Stereotyping (2007, unknown): “Most of the studies discussed so far have devoted attention to the role of media in influencing viewers' perceptions and beliefs about racial out-groups ( Brown Givens & Monahan, 2005 ; Ford, 1997 ; Hansen & Hansen, 1988 ).”
Racial Primes and Black Misandry on Historically White Campuses: Toward Critical Race Accountability in Educational Administration (2007, background): “Similarly, research shows a connection between imbalanced, derogatory media images of African American women and negative perceptions and behavior displayed against them (Givens & Monahan, 2005).”
Debunking the Myth of the "Angry Black Woman": An Exploration of Anger in Young African American Women (2009, background): “…of the angry black woman, the researchers’ findings provide evidence that representations of African American women contain gender and racial cues that may interact significantly to influence the way in which African American women are perceived in social situations (Brown-Givens and Monahan 2005).”