Media Representation - Race


Inclusion: Do media producers include the images, views, and cultures of different minority groups in media content?

Media Roles: When producers do include members of minorities in media content, how are they portrayed?

Control of Production: Do people from different minority groups have control over the creation and production of media images that feature different minority groups?

 

Inclusion:

2004 SAG Television Casting Data
Combined Episodic and Non-Episodic (Excluding Animation)

RACE TV US Population

White 74.5% 69.1%
African-American 13.8% 12.1%
Latino/Hispanic 5.5% 12.5%
Asian/Pacific 2.9% 3.6%
Native American 0.2% 0.7%
Unknown/Other 3.1%  

 

Media Roles:

RACE SCREEN TIME

White 81%
African-American 15%
Latino/Hispanic 3%
Asian/Pacific 1%
Native American < 0.5%

 

Control of Production: