An analysis of the representations of Afro-Peruvians in national television
Introduction
Despite the ethnic and cultural diversity that exists in Peru, the establishment of racial ideologies have influenced the ways in which these minorities are located in society and the levels of discrimination and systematic exclusion that they have suffered through time. This discrimination has affected them at a social level, but also at an institutional level, since they have been systematically marginalized and denied of their basic human rights.
Although racial and ethnic discrimination might be manifested in multiple ways, the current research proposal will focus on the Afro-Peruvian population , one of the groups that are most vulnerable to experience racism and discrimination, and that has been invisible both to society and to the Peruvian government for decades.
Because of it, the proposal will analyze the ways in which this …show more content…
When addressing the specificities of media representations for Afro-Peruvian populations, there are very few scholarly pieces that focus on that issue. However, they provide important arguments to understand the issues of the media in its relation with the development of race and ethnicity in Peru.
One of this text is Mira como ves: racismo y estereotipos en los medios de comunicación (2010), a compilation of essays that give a complete overview of the representations of Afro-descendants in the mass media, discussing the image construction of this population in different types of media. By the use of comparative studies and case studies of other countries, this book seeks to establish a common indicator of the way in which the representation of blackness is located within a more global