Brainstorm: The portrayal of people in media and literature has negative impacts on our self imag...

1. Although, the majority of people in charge of these negative media sterotypes have been confronted however refuse to accept change due to the effects of these representations and their own biased beliefs

2. "As documented throughout this report series, evidence continues to mount that diversity on the big screen sells. "

3. "a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called “American Psycho” and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers."

4. Analyze the spread of negative stereotypes through both industries and ways to combat or change those misperceptions.

5. The ways we can combat these steroptypes and the effects that they cause

6. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

7. "The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar."

8. "Danai Gurira, the actress who portrayed General Okoye Gurira in Black Panther, told IndieWire she hopes the film will especially empower young girls. “Even if it’s a mindset of hers being shifted or a realization of how to experience and express her own ferocity and femininity,” Gurira said. “Those sort of things, that sort of impact, if little girls have that and have images now to refer to that are cool and empowered and hip, that they can say, ‘Listen, I don’t have to fall into anyone else’s ideology of what I can be,’ that’s everything. That’s just everything.”

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10. The majority of the population creates unseen biases of themselves and what they can do based on the negative/one sided stories we are presented.

11. We also have stereotypical views and preconceived notions of others because of the images we see.

12. “Negative media stereotypes (thugs, criminals, fools, and the disadvantaged) are demoralizing and reduce self-esteem and expectations,” they write, adding that they can also create stress and “drain cognitive resources in some contexts.”

13. "The Opportunity Agenda found that black males in media are usually portrayed negatively, limited to a handful of “positive” stereotypes, painted as flat characters, or missing altogether. "

14. "Audiences—especially those with little exposure to those outside of their community—typically equate these limited, and harsh, media representations with the real world."