Title
Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills?
Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
6-30-2012
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; PSN Subject Matter eJournals; Communication Studies Research Network; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; CommRN Subject Matter eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network; Political Behavior eJournals
Abstract
Examines the history of ethnic depiction and stereotypes for each of the major minority groups of color going back to colonial times Shows that the depiction of each group has shifted from period to period "” now featuring hapless smiling blacks for example now devious Asians or shootyouintheback Mexicans "” but is in each era generally unfavorable Puts forth a functional theory of racial stereotypes to explain the changes and offers an explanation "the empathic fallacy" to explain why improvement is so slow in coming
Recommended Citation
Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado,
Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills?,
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/50