.thereidout Blog: A new watchdog report warns about the dangers of racist media, particularly for Latinos
relative to their share of the U.S. population.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the House Oversight and Reform Committee asked the GAO in October to investigate how many Latinos work across the film, television and publishing industries.of the U.S. population, they are only 12 percent of the media workforce, according to the GAO’s report. And Latinos employed in the media industry disproportionately work in service jobs, making up 22 percent of service workers.
The emphasis on Latino representation acknowledged the outsize roles news and entertainment play in creating narratives about racial and ethnic groups. In his time with the Hispanic Caucus, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, has made it a point to call out harmful stereotypes that marginalize the Latino community. He has repeatedly tied hateful stereotypes about Latinos — spread by politicians like former President Donald Trump — to acts of violence committed against Latinos.in response to the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that left 23 people dead — many of them Latinos.
Even before the age of television, when radios were becoming the primary source of in-home entertainment, trailblazing Latin American artists and producers knew the power of the airwaves to counteract — or stoke — racist stereotypes.in the early 1930s, Mexican musician and radio host Pedro González was among the most popular voices in the media defending Mexican Americans’ humanity. His pleas for humanity sound similar to those of Latino lawmakers and activists today.
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