Keeping It Unreal: Decoding Gender, Race and Reality TV--A Media Literacy Workshop

If reality TV was all you knew of America, you’d think the civil rights and women’s rights movements never occurred. Reality TV portrays women in general as gold-diggers, bimbos, and bitches -- and women of color as violent, ignorant, "ghetto" “hos.” Meanwhile, Black and Latino men are cast as modern day minstrels, thugs, and buffoons. Why are women and people of color represented so harmfully, and with so much bias, in media and popular culture? Learn to decode racism and sexism in popular media. Participants gain tools and resources to debunk messages of injustice and become active, critical media consumers.