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Saturday, March 1, 2014
What are the communication ethics concerning the social construction of race
Saw this post in fb shared by Salon about a recent Cobert episode. Find myself pondering about the ethical implications of how we socially construct race through 'agreed upon' racial identities...and the structural implications when institutions use those identities to legislate identity/language/culture
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I think that this is a very interesting video clip and the study brought up by Colbert raises quite a few questions. For example, one question that I had at the end of the clip was who is to blame and another was are the affects permanent? It seems like race determining stereotypes or stereotypes determine race as the ability to cause some pretty serious issues. To me, it seems like someone should try to correct the problem but it is unknown who is causing this to happen. Do I contribute to this phenomenon on a daily basis without even knowing it? I do not know… I would not even now where to start looking to now if I am doing it!
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that I noticed about the video what that Colbert is white. I have watched the show several times before but never thought about how his jokes may be taken by a person of a different race. The reason I am realizing this now is due to this class but also due to the fact that I have caught a few episodes of the Chappelle. Dave Chappelle, a black comedian, hosts the show. When watching his shows, I notice that he brings up a lot of race jokes that I do not always get or always think as funny. Some of them are great and others are a little too much for me. I am wondering if because I am white and he is black, I have a different standard of judging his race jokes compared to Colbert’s race jokes. My guess is that I do have a different standard…