Race and the Misrepresentation of Victimization on Local Television News

By Travis L. Dixon, Daniel G. Linz. Communication Research, 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Priming Mammies, Jezebels, and Other Controlling Images: An Examination of the Influence of Mediated Stereotypes on Perceptions of an African American Woman (2005, unknown): “E-mail: givenssb@ email.uah.edu themes are used to characterize minorities (Bogle, 2001; Dixon & Linz, 2000; Entman, 2002; Gray, 1991, 1995; hooks, 1992; Jhally & Lewis, 1992; Jones, 2000).”
Skin tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the stereotype of the dark and dangerous black criminal. (2005, background): “%) on news programs compared to employment records (59%; Dixon & Linz, 2000a).”
Priming Crime and Activating Blackness: Understanding the Psychological Impact of the Overrepresentation of Blacks as Lawbreakers on Television News (2007, methodology): “For example, the study of local news by Dixon and Linz (2000a) found that Blacks were twice as likely as Whites to be portrayed as perpetrators, six times more likely to be portrayed as perpetrators than as officers, and overrepresented as criminals, representing 37% of the perpetrators depicted w”
Television Viewing, Racial Attitudes, and Policy Preferences: Exploring the Role of Social Identity and Intergroup Emotions in Influencing Support for Affirmative Action (2010, background): “…reveal similar trends such that African-Americans and Latino-Americans are consistently overrepresented as criminals and lawbreakers, whereas Whites are overwhelmingly portrayed as law-enforcers and victims (Dixon & Linz, 2000; Entman, 1992, 1994; Entman & Rojecki, 2000; Mastro & Robinson, 2000).”
Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime (2008, methodology): “Primary research had determined that local television news programming overrepresents Blacks as perpetrators (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b).”
Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans (2008, methodology): “First, people of color are often associated with criminality on local news programs ( Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b; Entman, 1992; Romer, Jamieson, & de Coteau, 1998).”
Activating and Suppressing Hostile and Benevolent Racism: Evidence for Comparative Media Stereotyping (2007, unknown): “Racial portrayals in the media have been studied across a wide variety of media contexts, including news (Dixon & Linz, 2000a,b; Entman, 1992, 1994a,b; Gilens, 1996), prime-time programming (Mastro & Robinson, 2000; Oliver, 1994), and advertising (Coltrane & Messineo, 2000; Mastro & Stern, 2003).”
Psychological Reactions to Crime News Portrayals of Black Criminals: Understanding the Moderating Roles of Prior News Viewing and Stereotype Endorsement (2006, methodology): “Prior work suggests that Blacks may be repeatedly associated with criminality on television news (Dixon & Linz, 2000b; Entman, 1992, 1994; Entman & Rojecki, 2000).”
The Influence of Exposure to Depictions of Race and Crime in TV News on Viewer's Social Judgments (2009, background): “Both theory and empirical evidence indicate that media exposure contributes to the construction and perpetuation of these perceptions by disproportionately depicting racial/ethnic minorities as criminal suspects and Whites as victims in television news (Dixon, 2007; Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b).”
A social identity approach to understanding the impact of television messages (2003, background): “Content analyses have continually shown the news media’s propensity to represent Blacks as violent and dangerous (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b).”
The Portrayal of Race and Crime on Television Network News (2003, methodology): “This may increase the appearance of Whites as perpetrators (Dixon & Linz, 2000a).”
The Face of Crime: Viewers' Memory of Race‐Related Facial Features of Individuals Pictured in the News (2004, background): “…media may contribute to the prototype of the “Black criminal” by providing viewers with a host of examples of crime and particularly salient, violent crime, in which Blacks are more likely than Whites to be portrayed as criminal (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b; Entman & Rojecki, 2000; Oliver, 1994).”
Media's influence on immigration attitudes: An intergroup threat theory approach (2016, background): “The news media depicts these groups as violent aggressors targeting White victims (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b).”
The Representation of Juvenile Offenders by Race on Los Angeles Area Television News (2006, methodology): “The first content measurement approach is a comparison of the portrayals of Blacks or Latinos to Whites portrayed in the media ( Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b; Entman, 1992, 1994).”