Books

Media Studies AS + A2 by Jacquie Bennett, Published in 2005
Stereotypes - Pg 94
This page covers what the term stereotypes actually means; I found it important to understand the terms and its meanings better as my independant study can relate to stereotypes of people from ethnic backgrounds. I learnt that there are many different characteristics of stereotypes.Stereotypes are and have usually been used as terms to describe certain groups of people (black, white etc) Stereotypes can be anything from people to actual things. Groups which can be stereotyped are:Age, Sex, Race, Religion, Vocation, Nationality, Places and things.
Theorists to Consider - Pg 92/93
Propp = His attitudes and beliefs towards the usage of characters and certain character roles. Levi Strauss = Binary oppositions - Whites vs Blacks (racism) Rolande Barthes = Enigma codes, the way they are created and how they help the audience resolve the story. Todorov's Narrative structures.
Ferguson, Robert (1998): Representing 'Race', U.K, Arnold Publications.
The way these males are shown and represented in foilms. This will be used because of the way the negative stereotypes are shown of males in the media. This will relate to my text because the way all of the students are categorised apart creating a split between each other. Jahmal is black he doesnt Andre who is a cambodian race.
“The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime” (1998)
This article talks about the way the view in society on issues such as racial profiling has chnaged over time. I can use this in my essay because i can say how the stereotypes given to the certain students can be changed over time because they do.
Agression and violence, (1982): Basil Blackwell Publisher LTD.
There is an interesting section which can relate to my study becausae a part in this chapter is about the way a character is judged on his anger and the consequnces it leads to. This can be seen how in the movie the character Eva is aggresive towards everyone which makes her role in the film. This is because o what has happened to her in the past that has made her that specific person.
DESEGREGATION IN THE BALTIMORE CITY SCHOOLS (1954 pg 32)
This book contains information abotu the way students were catergorised and felt the racial profiling and racism attatched to their lives. It is important to make reference to because in Freedom writers the studnets are contstantly targeted by different races and know that at school they are just there becaus ethey have to be rather than wan to have an education.
Micheal Banton (1987) Racial Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pg 3
'To identify the groups as races was to imply that the biological differences were the key ones.' This qoute hspws how people themselvs have created the difference amongst racial profiling today. We ourselves have continuously used race to replace the persons idenctity because they are not the same as us. This shows how in the movie they are all against one another tryiong to make their own kind survive.
Nelmes, Jill (1999) pg292, "An Introduction to Film Studies", Routledge, U.K.
This page contains a theorist Dyer speaking about hw black stereotypes are not always negative. This can be used to supporth the fact that ok, they are not always negative which is reflected in Freedom writers, Bceuase in the first half of the movie, the studnets are ll really bad and mishaving meeting the stereotypes given to them but when they turn around and chnage everything, they no longer meet those stereotypes.