Social Media on Racism of African American in USA

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.031How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social media; Racism; African American; Ethnic group; Relative deprivation

Abstract

This article applies ethic identity theory to the existence of racial discrimination towards African American in social media platform. With theory applied, the article highlights the development of ethnic identity during structural suppression history and contemporary epoch of new media in the first place, and coalesces with social media in terms of investigation about: How the ethnic identity gets boosted? How ethnic boundaries originates? How the ethnicity manifests? What the societal attributes to the imbalance among different ethnic groups are? What viable solutions to imbalance are? As the culmination, there are two methods from the lens of a nation proposed in this article to terminate the racism against African American, which are the identifications both in ethnic group and nation. On the one hand, acknowledgement and deference for diversified culture of each ethnic group is the how muti-race nation should administrate the identification for ethnic group. On the other hand, while satisfying the fundamental needs is the prerequisite, mutual comprehensive development of each ethnic group in the direction of unitary politics and promotion of heterogeneous ethnic identity are the essential procedures to achieve the identification of nation.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Junhan Cai
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Social Media on Racism of African American in USA
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 157
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.031
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.031
ID  - Cai2022
ER  -