The “Ghetto Kids Gone Good” article analyzes the Urban Debate League (UDL). The UDL’s mission is to provide underprivileged populations with the benefits of debate participation. Debate skills are crucial to educational performance and achievement. The effectiveness of the URLs in raising the academic attainment of interior kids of color via debate involvement in places defined by racial and social status privilege has great human significance. A closer look into UDL national news coverage uncovers more delicate and intricate levels of definitions hidden in the lines of human-interest stories (Reid-Brinkley, 2012). The limited and confining portrayal of the black person as it interacts in racial coherence was used in the media reporting of the UDL, as examined in this article. The artifact also examines race, class, and gender, where stereotypes condemning inner-city kids are employed by the press. These story-framing techniques start the process of determining the possible scripts.
It is evident that race has become immensely flexible and vital to conceptualize. The frames that the media has established are the most engaging and understandable to the general public. Due to the general process of intelligibility, the segregated poverty line makes particular scripts accessible to black youth. For impoverished black bodies, the field of coherence operates through a dialogic connection in the domain of coherence that generates the scripts since repeating these scripts is entailed in preserving the field’s normative role.
In both the media and culture, the depiction of African American youths, acting through conceptual and aesthetic frames, replicate and maintain race, class, and sex-based stereotypes which condemn African Americans. Inner-city African American youths are noticeable in public discourse in the US, symbolizing both the inadequacy of public education and the afflictions of paucity to some Americans. Journalists use a variety of ways to represent poverty as the key frame for characterizing the kids’ economic backgrounds. As a result, individuals in the United States have mixed feelings toward young African Americans who represent the thug character.
However, the media has started to react to this situation with a negative portrayal of these youths. It has been criticized for always portraying minorities in a negative light. As a result, ambivalence in press coverage of black people and a growing national conversation about race. Due to the black’s underperformance, the news media may be more likely to feature good stories about black students’ accomplishments. However, the current news genre is tough to dismiss because of its comprehensibility. Spectators, as a result, the urban deterioration, poverty, and criminality themes are frequently reproduced in the mainstream press. Even when striving to depict racial strangers in ways that are more sophisticated when producing such frames are reproduced, racial others are scripted as per the setting of the frame.
This reading greatly enhanced my capability to understand that institutional racism, neighborhoods, new public places, insecurity, anxieties, and other current urban elements, have a significant influence on young people’s urban lives, which is relayed by class and gender. Moreover, in most cases of race and wealth, gender has been overlooked. For instance, women make a lot less money than males do. African American women face the challenges of being both a woman and an African American. On the one hand, white women and minorities are less likely to be promoted than white men. On the other hand, White males benefit from benefits that come with being white and male, such as access to larger social networks that generate job leads.
Reference
Reid-Brinkley, S. (2012). Ghetto kids gone good: Race, representation, and authority in the scripting of inner-city youths in the urban debate league. Argumentation and Advocacy, 49(2), 77-99. Web.