Lights, cameras, representation! Raising racially just kids in today's media environment.

Lights, cameras, representation! Raising racially just kids in today’s media environment.
November 11, 2020 @ 8:30 pm ET

From the moment they are born, our children are participants in a hugely consequential, ongoing conversation about race and ethnicity of which we, and they, may be only dimly aware. Our news and entertainment media play lead roles in that conversation. According to Common Sense Media, 2-8-year-old children in the US spent an average of nearly three hours every day on screen media alone in 2017.

Join us for a conversation about how movies and television shape children’s ideas about race and ethnicity, what healthy racial content on big and small screens looks/sounds like nowadays, what we can do to encourage the development of more high-quality racial representations in TV and movies, and how we can help the children we love critically engage critically with media. As always, we will welcome your insights and questions. Read more about our special guests below.

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Special Guests

Marcy Gunther, Director of Media Development for Children’s Media and Senior Producer at WGBH in Boston, is a multi-Emmy award winning producer with over 20 years of experience developing and producing educational children’s media. In addition to overseeing GBH’s development slate for Children’s Media, she was Senior Producer on the first season of the groundbreaking PBS KIDS series Molly of Denali, the first nationally distributed children’s series in the U.S. to feature an Alaska Native lead character.

Candace Howze is a North Carolina-based writer, activist and multimedia artist. Her poetry and essays have been published in The Huffington Post, MTV, CRWN Magazine, The Grief Diaries and elsewhere. She was named an Ella Fountain Pratt emerging artist in 2017 and served as a Documentary Fellow at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She is currently co-organizing a petition to address ethnic stereotypes in film and television. You can find her online at candacehowze.com.

Hemant Shah has been a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1990. He teaches and conducts research on race, ethnicity and media; international communication and a teaching symposium for graduate students. Dr. Shah frequently collaborates with students and local media organizations to devise strategies to help media do a better job of covering and depicting non-white racial and ethnic groups.