Racial Fear

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses whether white people feel afraid of a black person by virtue of his race and if so, what factors may contribute to that fear. The paper explains that specific events can trigger a person's fear of someone from a different race and this can be partly attributed to the media's handling of different races. The paper maintains that when the media begins to treat different races more equally, people will experience a reduced automatic reaction of fear when they encounter the opposite race.

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Introduction
Stereotyping
Evidence
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"One of the things that can trigger race based fear is event driven fear. When a child is attacked on a playground by a group of students and those students all happen to be of a particular race, that child may grow up to develop a fear of all members of that race. In addition when that child is raised in a basic one race group or area and is never exposed to other races the fear of the unknown can also create a fear of other races. Everyone has heard the stories about whites crossing the street to avoid an approaching black individual or group. Articles and news interviews nationwide indicate it is not only a white fearing black issues, but many blacks and Mexicans are raised to fear whites as well."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Daily dose of fear http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/examiner/article.cgi?year=1996&month=11&day=27&article=NEWS2814.dtlLeslie Goldberg and Jim Herron Zamora, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
• Fear of Racially Motivated CrimeThe British Crime Survey (2000) http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs1.html
• Recipe for a Perfect Storm Miguel De La Torre 09-06-05http://ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=6250
• The Black Image in the White Mind Exerpts from the book: by Robert M. Entman & Andrew Rojecki http://www.yaaams.org/blackimage.shtml

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