Race, pigskin, and politics
A semiotic analysis of racial images in political advertising
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4474503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlton D Mcilwain (0000-0002-7671-2093, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2007 |
| Issue | 167 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem.2007.075 |
| OpenAlex | W2110471052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper analyzes a televised political advertisement run by David Perryman against former Congressman J. C. Watts in the 1994 Fourth District Congressional race in Oklahoma. Relying on Roland Barthes' conception of the rhetoric of the image — what I refer to as critical semiotics — the paper investigates the four sign systems at work in the ad: photographs, written language, spoken language (narration), and moving images. The analysis demonstrates: how the sponsor of the ad uses the trope of the ‘Afro’ as the primary signifying image; that the ad argues against Watts' candidacy by implicitly appealing to audience members' (voters') negative associations of blackness with inferiority, criminality, and perceptions of black militancy associated with the black power movement
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Candidacy · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Rhetoric · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Trope (literature) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |