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Using the 12th edition of Language Awareness, complete the
following assignment:
After reading Akiba Solomon's "Thugs. Students. Rioters. Fans:
Media's Subtle Racism in Unrest Coverage," in Language
Awareness,answer the following questions:
1. How does Solomon argue that the media describes riots
involving black crowds? What is Solomon's first reaction to
such behavior? Why does her reaction shift?
1. How does Solomon argue that the media describes riots
involving white crowds? How does it differ from the
descriptions of the rioters in Baltimore? Why does Solomon
choose the examples she does?
1. For what reasons do you think Solomon compares
descriptions of rioting in Baltimore to those at Penn State in
particular? Why might she emphasize twice the sexual assaults
involved in the Penn State case? Why do you think she
emphasizes the "symbolic gesture" ascribed to the Penn State
crowd in comparison to those in Baltimore? How does she
suggest these responses are incongruous?
1. How does Solomon suggest race determines the language of
media coverage? How does this disparity in media coverage
reinforce her Aunt Kinyozi's favorite phrase: "Words are
powerful"? What power do the words of the press have to shape
the population?
1. What Ohio incidents does Solomon compare? Why are these
incidents particularly unnerving? How does the use of language
like "racial discrimination has particular resonance" contrast
with a phrase such as "race riots"?
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