admin FAMILY: Learning to Live In Interracial World
“What do you think Bryan feels like? What would Bryan like to do?” Marshall’s mother asks those questions often. She…
For 200 Years: Alternative Press Voices Dissident Views
We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been…
And the Company President Is a Black Woman
Over the past decade, discontent over Hollywood’s chronic failure to cast minority actors and depict minority groups fairly in both…
Wrong Background: Issues of Newsroom Employment
"I’d get calls from editors and they’d say, ‘I’ve got to hire a black by the end of the week.’…
A Long Way to Go: Minorities and the Media
During the September 18, 1986, televising of The $25,000 Pyramid, a most remarkable exchange occurred. In this popular game show…
How to Analyze an Advertisement
There’s more to advertising’s message than meets the casual eye. An effective ad, like other forms of communication, works best…
GLOBAL: Global Consumers Gain New Self-Awareness
The advertising budgets of developing countries are on the rise. This is due mainly to the rapid expansion of commercial…
MINORITIES: Ads Still Portray All-White Society
The conventional wisdom about minorities in advertising goes something like this: In the bad old days, before the civil rights…
ADVOCACY: Marketing Justice Without Selling Out
"Bumperstickers $1, Nuclear-Free Zone Window Decals 2/$1, Buttons 2/$1.25. Complete Organizer’s Kit, $5.00." This ad for a group called Nukewatch…
WOMEN: Using Female Bodies For Sales and Profit
Dismembered bodies — thighs, breasts, anus lie strewn across the television screen… exotic women drape themselves over leopard-skin rugs seductively…