Buzzfeed recently posted an article about race and gender diversity on television in the United States. Alyssa Rosenberg of Think Progress divvided up the main characters of primetime scripted shows on NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox by race and gender and compaired them to the actually population of race and gender in the United States. Her study included professional statistics as well. She also included a disclaimer that says that the numbers she found may be a little more generous than they might have been. Here are the results.
I was actually surprised that the percentage of White women on tv was more than the US population however the stats about women of other races did not surprise me. It was also interesting to note that the percentage of Asian or Latino men on tv is the same as Magical or Robots.
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Race And Gender Diversity On Television Vs. In The United States
I'm really glad that you pointed out that last part, that the amount of magical/robot representations were the same as that of Asian or Latino men. I think that's very telling about the value we put on those identities as a society, as reflected by their media representation.
ReplyDeleteI love this! Such a great forward way of showing how tv is not representational of the real population!
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