Yesterday's lecture focused on how images, such as movie posters, perpetuate stereotypes. Why do people associate words like safari with Africa, how many countries are in Africa? All of these questions point toward how Americans often don't know they act out of what are stereotypical-producing mindsets. Some of the posters that were shown are below. What do they make you think of? What is strange or discomforting about them?
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