‘‘Ethnic minorities are continually misrepresented by racial (and racist) stereotypes.”-Laughey, D. (2009). p. 78.
“Media stereotyping occurs when the roles and behaviour on personal characteristics of a particular group are portrayed in a limited fashion” - Williams, K. (2003). p. 131.
Ethnic minority viewers accused all broadcasters of tokenism and stereotyping, screening exaggerated and extreme representations of minorities and failing to reflect modern ethnic minority cultures.”-http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/2008/07/top-soaps-accused-of-stereotyp.html
“Stereotypes are thus neither neutral nor fair, preventing the examination of differences within groups”- Williams, K. (2003). p. 130
“broadcasters of perpetuating racial stereotypes with token characters-http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/ethnic-minorities-accuse-tv-programmers-of-tokenism-869817.html
stereotypes have a complex relationship to ‘reality’. While stereotypes may be partial, they are not necessarily false: they generally control a grain of the truth- Calvert, B. Casey, B. Casey, N. French, L. Lewis, J. (2002). p. 168.
disproportionately targeted by police in a stop and search surge under counterterrorism laws in the wake of the failed 2007 London bomb attack.”- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/30/black-asian-stop-search-police-terrorism
“when it comes to imagery surrounding black people; I’m used to relentlessly negative - knife crime, underachievement representations”-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/05/london-black-children-awards
the media fills the audience with information which is resistant to social change but on the other hand it can be said that representations of ethnic minorities are open to different interpretations and that their meanings are not fixed”-Creeber, G. (2003). p. 109.
“Lower among minority ethnic groups than among the White population”
“Mixed ethnic background in a number of studies, largely as a result of high levels of cannabis use”
"Men are more likely than women to use any illicit drugs in many ethnic groups, particularly among Asian, White and Chinese/other groups. Black and mixed race men and women have similar levels of use”
“Asian drug users also appear to be more likely to use smoking or chasing as their method of administration; those in White communities are more likely to inject
“The stereotype as the "criminal black man", because people associate young black men with crime in American culture. She writes that the black male is portrayed as a "symbolic pillager of all that is good” Russell-Brown, p. 84.
“The criminal black man appears often in the context of athletics and sports.” Arthur A. Raney and Jennings Bryant discuss this in Handbook of Sports and Media (2006).
“The stereotype of young black males and crime also exists in the United Kingdom. Robbery, drug use, and gang violence, for example, have been associated with black people since the 1960s” Marsh and Melville, p. 84
