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of people of color to be aware of, and to contest. We can be cautiously optimis-
tic, and yet acknowledge that many of the improvements are relative to shifts
in society about race in general. Therefore, the question to focus on should be:
are the media industry and its consumers active in improving racial depictions?
The answer to this question remains open, as the goal of racial equality has yet to
be fulfilled. Progress is being made, certainly, but we still have work to do.
see also Audience Power to Resist; Bollywood and the Indian Diaspora; Dating
Shows; Islam and the Media; Media and Citizenship; Media Literacy; Minority
Media Ownership; Nationalism and the Media; Parachute Journalism; Reality
Television; Representations of Class; Representations of Masculinity; Represen-
tations of Women; Sensationalism, Fear Mongering, and Tabloid Media; Shock
Jocks; Tourism and the Selling of Cultures; World Cinema.

Further reading: Bodrogkhozy, Aniko. “ ‘Is This What You Mean by Color TV?’ Race, Gen-
der, and Contested Meanings in NBC’s Julia.” In Private Screenings: Television and the
Female Consumer, ed. Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann. Minneapolis: University of Min-
nesota Press, 1992; Children Now Publications. “Fall Colors: Prime Time Diversity
Report,” available for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 at http://publications.childrennow.
org/; Coleman, Lionel (dir.). I’m the One That I Want. New York: Winstar TV and Video,
Cho Taussig Productions, 2000; Davis, Angela, and Neferti X. M. Tadiar, eds. Beyond
the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation. New York: Palgrave MacMillan,
2005; Downing, John D. H., and Charles Husband. Representing Race: Racisms, Eth-
nicity and the Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005; Ferguson, Robert. Representing
Race: Ideology, Identity and the Media. London: Arnold, 1998; Fiske, John. Media Mat-
ters: Race and Gender in U.S. Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996;
Gray, Herman. Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for “Blackness.” Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1997, 2002; Hamamoto, Darrell. Monitored Peril: Asian
Americans and the Politics of TV Representation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1994; Hunt, Darnell, ed. Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in
America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005; Hunt, Darnell. Screening the Los
Angeles ‘Riots’: Race, Seeing, and Resistance. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University
Press, 1997; Kim, L. S. “Be The One That You Want: Asian Americans in Television Cul-
ture, Onscreen and Beyond.” Amerasia Journal 30, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 125–46; Leung,
Linda. Virtual Ethnicity: Race, Resistance and the World Wide Web. Burlington, VT: Ash-
gate, 2005; Media Education Foundation. Reel Bad Arabs (film), 2006; Noreiga, Chon.
Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2000; Riggs, Marlon (dir.). Color Adjustment. San Fran-
cisco: California News Reel, 1992; Robinson, Russell. “Hollywood’s Race/Ethnicity and
Gender-Based Casting: Prospects for a Title VII Lawsuit.” Latino Policy and Issues Brief
no. 14 (December 2006). http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/press/briefs/documents/LPIB_
14December2006_001.pdf; Torres, Sasha. Living Color: Race and Television in the United
States. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
L. S. Kim

rePresentations oF woMen

Media representations of women have been the focus of feminist critique for
decades. Critics charge that media images represent exceedingly narrow forms