Occupational Role Portrayals of African-American Women on Prime-time Television

Download or read book Occupational Role Portrayals of African-American Women on Prime-time Television written by Shani Tyhirah Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However, their actual presence in these careers is higher than that of African-American male characters on network television, which closely resembles the distribution of professional African-American males and females in the U.S. working population. The results also revealed that out of the four networks, UPN had a substantially greater number of African-American female characters in professional careers, but their representations include subtle messages of racial/ethnic stereotypical behaviors commonly associated with African-Americans.