Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito
Event Details
October 27, 2016 6:30 PM — October 27, 2016 7:30 PM
Location: African American Museum of Iowa
55 12th Ave SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Contact Name: Krystal Gladden
Email: kgladden@blackiowa.org
Phone: 319-862-2101
Website: www.blackiowa.org
55 12th Ave SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Contact Name: Krystal Gladden
Email: kgladden@blackiowa.org
Phone: 319-862-2101
Website: www.blackiowa.org
Event Description
Dr. Brian Behnken is an Associate Professor of the History at Iowa State University whose scholarship has explored relations between Latino/as and blacks during the civil rights period, police violence, and ethno-racial forms of nationalism, among other subjects. In his book, Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito, he looks at how popular media, including literature, has impacted the way that African Americans and Latinos have been represented and portrayed in media, focusing heavily on print media. In this presentation, Dr. Behnken will focus on how both fiction and non-fiction works were historically used to craft racist mental images that portrayed African Americans in a negative light.
