Media Representations through an Intersectional Lens: Portrayals of White and Minority Female Victims

• In Event: Portrayals of Victims in the Media

Abstract

Few researchers have analyzed news stories about victimization, and even fewer have explored whether certain narrative themes are more or less common in stories about white, black, and Latina female victims. Critical race feminists argue that perceptions of white women are distinct from those of minority women, suggesting that crime story narratives will differ depending on a female victim’s race/ethnicity. To explore that possibility, front-page news stories from eight different newspapers from across the United States were analyzed following Altheide’s (1996) approach to qualitative document analysis.

Authors

• Danielle Slakoff, University of Nebraska Omaha

• Pauline Brennan, University of Nebraska Omaha