Media Forum Post

Richard Dyer’s essay argues, “We need to recognise white as a colour too” (p. 11). Drawing on Dyer, discuss how we might apply this notion to media. What is a particular media text (be it a film, television show, video game, etc.) that elucidates whiteness as a racial category? Alternately, what is a media text that fails to do so, instead treating whiteness as the “default” or “normal,” and thus not a racial category? **Reading included as reference**