A Study of Ethnic Stereotypes in the United States from the Viewpoint of the Theory of 'Other'

“他者”理论视角下的美国种族刻板印象研究

基本信息

批准号：
08610313
负责人：
TAKEZAWA Yasuko
金额：
$ 1.28万
依托单位：
University of Tsukuba, Institute of Social Sciences
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1996
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1996 至 1998
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-08610313/
关键词：
race ethnicity stereotypes boundaries advertising other images United States アメリカエスニック他者論民族

项目摘要

This study approached the issue of racial boundaries by focusing on racial stereotypes, which I regard as representations of "races" that are confined within ideological boundaries. Stereotypes with racial markers serve to confirm, reproduce, and invent racial differences. This study was an attempt to better explain the white-minority relationship either explicitly or implicitly portrayed in advertising, by combining both qualitative and quantitative approaches. My research involves reviewing advertisements published in several mass-circulation American magazines from 1900s until WWII.Racial boundaries exist not only on the superficial level of racial categories divided by skin color, but they often take more covert forms deeply rooted in human psychology of cognitive differentiation, which is eventually linked to social hierachy or Orientalism. In decoding advertisements and in statistical analysis, I have observed a number of dimensions in which minorities are confined by their role representation in advertising, either in terms of gender and age or by such attributes as facial expression, language. and clothes.These boundaries are rigid in one sense and yet are flexible in another. We have to bear in mind that whites are the main target readership around the time period examined in this paper, while for minorities advertising served as a means of "Americanization" or becoming "white-like". The images attached to minorities seem to be mere projections of complex selves among whites, to which they could be transformed to "better" selves exhibiting higher social class, civilized lifestyles, sophistication, and good-looks, by purchasing these products. Precisely because of the possibility of changing themselves and fundamentally because of different selves existing within their selves, they need icons representing different positions and statuses in order to differentiate the self they aspire to from the self they want to deny.

这项研究通过关注种族刻板印象来解决种族界限问题，我将其视为受意识形态界限限制的“种族”的表征。带有种族标记的刻板印象有助于确认、再现和创造种族差异。本研究试图通过结合定性和定量方法，更好地解释广告中明确或隐含地描绘的白人与少数族裔的关系。我的研究涉及审查从 1900 年代到二战期间几份大众发行的美国杂志上发布的广告。种族界限不仅存在于按肤色划分的种族类别的表面层面，而且往往采取更隐蔽的形式，深深植根于人类认知分化的心理，最终与社会等级制度或东方主义联系在一起。在解码广告和统计分析中，我观察到少数群体在广告中的角色表现受到限制的许多维度，无论是性别和年龄，还是面部表情、语言等属性。这些界限在某种意义上是严格的，但在另一种意义上是灵活的。我们必须记住，白人是本文研究的时间段内的主要目标读者，而对于少数族裔来说，广告是“美国化”或变得“像白人”的一种手段。少数族裔的形象似乎只是白人复杂自我的投射，通过购买这些产品，他们可以转变为“更好”的自我，展现出更高的社会阶层、文明的生活方式、成熟和漂亮。正因为有改变自己的可能，根本上是因为内心存在着不同的自我，所以他们需要代表不同立场和地位的偶像，以区分他们所向往的自我和他们想要否定的自我。