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Invisible Ink: Structural Racism in the Media from Past to Present
Total Credits: 1 including 1 Category II CEs
- Bundle(s):
- Structural Racism Series
- Categories:
- DHS Approved | New | OnDemand
- Instructor:
- DeNeen L. Brown
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 08 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
Description
In this course participants will be introduced to a brief history of how historical and contemporary racist narratives infiltrate journalism and media, impacting Black and indigenous people in the global majority. This one-hour, a-synchronous course, examines historical and contemporary roles journalism and the media play in perpetuating systemic racism in North America. Participants will be challenged to become more critical consumers of media and journalism by introducing them to concrete examples of how media perpetuates stereotypes, causing real harm. Participants will be introduced to concrete tools to identify and counter bias and racism in the media.
This workshop is in accordance with and compliance with the NASW Standards with a focus on service, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, competence, and social workers’ ethical responsibilities to clients, to colleagues, in practice settings, as professionals, to the social work profession, to the broader society.
Maryland: This workshop is in compliance with the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners’ COMAR 10.42.03.06.A(5) and fulfills Maryland’s structural racism training requirement for licensed health professionals, as established by state regulation.
District of Columbia: This workshop is in compliance with the District of Columbia Board of Social Work 17-70-7008.4.
Access and Refund Policy:
You have 30 days (from purchase) to access the recording and complete the quiz.
Refunds or transfers will not be granted after purchase.
Handouts
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Instructor
DeNeen L. Brown Related Seminars and Products
DeNeen L. Brown is an award-winning journalist and professor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, where she teaches writing and reporting with a focus on social justice. A former staff writer at The Washington Post for over 35 years, Brown was a founding member of the "Retropolis" team, known for uncovering hidden histories—especially those centered on Black life in America. Her reporting on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre helped prompt the city’s renewed search for mass graves and was featured in national documentaries on PBS and NatGeo. As a foreign correspondent and Canada Bureau Chief, Brown covered everything from Arctic climate change to missing Indigenous women. Her award-winning narratives have appeared in The Best Newspaper Writing of 1999 and earned honors from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the National Association of Black Journalists. Brown continues to be recognized for her powerful writing voice and commitment to illuminating untold stories.
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Learning While Racialized: Dismantling Structural Racism in Education
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Built to Exclude: Structural Racism in Economic Opportunity and Access
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Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives:
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Define structural racism and its role in media institutions.
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Analyze key findings of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, a U.S. report that found that media coverage of race riots in the 1960s failed to adequately report on African-American life and failed to report on how systemic racism in housing, employment, education, policing and the media led to protests.
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Identify how contemporary mainstream media prints and publishes stories that rely on racist bias, using some racist stereotypes and tropes used in the media.
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Understand different approaches behavioral sociologists and scientists can use to advocate for clients impacted by racism in the media.
Bibliography & References
BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCES
Author (ANON.) Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Kerner Commission Report on the Causes, Events, and Aftermaths of the Civil Disorders of 1967. (1967). 440 pp.https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/FHEO/documents/kerner_commission_full_report.pdf
Chideya, Farai, “In the Shadow of Kerner: Fifty years Later, Newsroom Diversity and Equity Stall.” Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. May 22, 2018. https://shorensteincenter.org/kerner-fifty-years-later-newsroom-diversity/
Remmers, Jasmijn, “Mass Media: The Construction of Ethnic Stereotypes.” (2014). https://humanityinaction.org/knowledge_detail/mass-media-the-construction-of-ethnic-stereotypes/#:~:text=The%20oversimplification%20of%20stories%2C%20conflicts,overly%20simplified%20to%20the%20public.
Roberts, Gene, and Klibanoff, Hank, “The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.” New York. Knopf, 2007, 518 pp.
Course Completion & CE Information
Category II Maryland BSWE Requirement
The Office of Continuing Professional Education at the University of Maryland School of Social Work is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs. This workshop qualifies for 1 Category II Continuing Education Units for Structrual Racism. The Office of Continuing Professional Education is also authorized by the Maryland Board of Psychologists and the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors to sponsor Category A continuing professional education.
To receive ACE credit, full attendance is required; no partial credits will be given for partial attendance.
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Target Audience
Social Workers, LCPCs, Psychologists and all Behavioral Health Practioners
We welcome anyone interested in the topic!
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