Our Politics of Race Collection includes four titles: Latinos Beyond Reel, The Great White Hoax, More than a Word, and Constructing the Terrorist Threat. These videos are useful tools for understanding the long history of racial stereotyping and scapegoating in American politics and media, and for making sense of the politics of white grievance, cultural anxiety, and racial division that are almost certain to define the 2020 presidential election. You can watch trailers and read a brief description of each video below.
Latinos Beyond Reel draws on the insights of Latinx scholars, journalists, actors, and directors to provide a history of anti-Latino, anti-immigrant stereotyping and political scapegoating in U.S. news and entertainment media.
The Great White Hoax, featuring acclaimed anti-racism educator Tim Wise, examines the right’s decades-long effort to use racial scapegoats to divide and conquer working class voters.
More Than a Word, directed by Native American filmmakers John and Kenn Little, offers a deeply personal account of the injustices done to indigenous peoples, the inequalities that still plague indigenous communities, and the cultural stereotypes that have helped normalize both.
Constructing the Terrorist Threat, featuring media scholar Deepa Kumar, documents how Muslims have become the face of terror in U.S. media discourse even though white extremists have committed far more terror attacks on American soil since 9/11.
