Both texts portray different forms of racism present in society. Text one examines racism through the movie "For One Night" which shows overt racism through segregated proms in a high school. The movie and analysis highlight the unequal power dynamics between white students and black students. Text two analyzes a news article about Asian migrants in New Zealand and finds examples of new racism through subtle stereotyping and otherization of Asians. Both texts discuss how media can perpetuate racism through unequal representation and manipulation of minority voices.

1. Language, Power & Discourse Harpreet Kaur

2. Media’s role in shaping views and creating racial discourse.

3. The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ~ Malcolm X

9. Text One: For One Night Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/For_One_Night_oficial_poster.jpg

12. Student Gerica McCary who made headlines in 2002 by bringing national attention to Butler, Georgia Shandra Hill Smith, a freelance journalist who focussed media attention towards the fight of an integrated prom. Image sources: http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/shandra-hill-smith http://foronenightmovie.blogspot.com/2011/09/real-gerica-mccrary-aka-gerica-mcrary.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/01/national/main551926.shtml

13. Source: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0503-03.htm Source: http://nyourwill.blogspot.com/2006/03/proms-divided-by-race.html

18. Text Two: When silence is yellow, not golden http://www.salient.org.nz/features/when-silence-is-yellow-not-golden