(Source: Clark University) "How and why do so many negative images of young black males, particularly images steeped in an outsized criminality and violence, persist in mainstream media? What are some of the consequences of this?" These were the central questions posed by Natalie Byfield, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John's University in Queens, in an Oct. 30 lecture at Clark University titled, "Media Representations and the Lives of African-American Males." Byfield's presentation was part of the Higgins School of Humanities' Fall 2013...
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