{"id":37841,"date":"2016-02-29T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37841"},"modified":"2016-02-29T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:11:34","slug":"panel-will-examine-racial-bias-in-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/02\/panel-will-examine-racial-bias-in-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel will examine racial bias in popular culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there racial bias in popular culture? Do cultural stereotypes play into media coverage?<\/p>\n<p>These questions will be explored Thursday, March 3 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. with a panel discussion hosted by Brock University\u2019s African Heritage Recognition Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The following speakers and topics will be explored during the free community event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Duke University alumnus Tamara Extian-Babluk presents her talk &#8220;Canadian myths and realities: slavery and racial inequality in Canadian history.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She will discuss contemporary Canadian national identity and the dominant myths. She will show some slave ads and discuss slavery in Ontario\/Upper Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will talk a little about attitudes towards newcomers to Canada, and how Canadians are not always as welcoming as our contemporary national myths would suggest,\u201d Extian-Babluk said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brock University\u2019s Tamara El-Hoss talk is titled \u201cTina M. Campt\u2019s Image Matters: Archive, Photography &amp; the African Diaspora in Europe.\u201d She will focus on photographs of black German subjects taken between 1900 and 1945, highlighting how the images depict a complex and potentially divergent narrative.<\/li>\n<li>Brock University\u2019s Richard Ndayizigamiye will explore symbolism of militancy in pop culture and its backlash with his talk \u201cWhen the Foot is on the Other Shoe: Rereading Subliminal Messaging in Visual Arts.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He will discuss embedded messages in portrayals of Black Haitian revolutionaries at the end of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> and beginning of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries. He will also discuss lynchings in the United States and the Tyler Shields Project.<\/p>\n<p>The event is taking place Sankey Chamber and is a free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there racial bias in popular culture? Do cultural stereotypes play into media coverage?<br \/>\nThese questions will be explored Thursday, March 3 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. with a panel discussion hosted by Brock University\u2019s African Heritage Recognition Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[1627,3862,3861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37842,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841\/revisions\/37842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}