Black Panther The blockbuster movies has received plenty of attention on the media outlets after it was released. The movie's success has been unprecedented. The film has moved to be one of the third biggest unadjusted domestic movie with all over $700 million in the domestic box office. It is known as the biggest comic book superhero movie ever. The movies present plenty of excitement. The first is the fact that it has plenty of black casts, which is something not common for Hollywood. The second is that it includes various shades of skin color, dark-skinned black males and female taking the lead roles. The people of color are positively represented throughout the movie (Dill-Shackleford, Ramasubramanian, Behm-Morawitz, Scharrer, Burgess, & Lemish, 2017).
All the points that have been mentioned above are important things when talking about race/ ethnicity. Even though it is important for parent to talk about race and ethnicity with their children, it does not serve to be a source of racial socialization. While watching the movie, the children and adolescent do receive messages on the race and ethnicity from the media and conversations with peers which it contributes to the formation of the racial/ ethnic identity. In several occasion the children view themselves in the media and people of color are portrayed negatively as criminal, thus, stereotypically as comic relief and supportive roles as sidekicks and background characters. It means that the black and brown children are not seeing people that look like them in positive leadership roles movie (Dill-Shackleford, Ramasubramanian, Behm-Morawitz, Scharrer, Burgess, & Lemish, 2017).
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It is important for identity development and self-concept for children and adolescents of color to see positive examples of people who look like them represent them. According to Albert Bandura’s Social Learning theory, it explains how children learn and point out that they learn through observing and modeling others, which include modeling characters they see on media movie (Dill-Shackleford, Ramasubramanian, Behm-Morawitz, Scharrer, Burgess, & Lemish, 2017).
Works cited
Dill-Shackleford, K., Ramasubramanian, S., Behm-Morawitz, E., Scharrer, E., Burgess, M., & Lemish, D. (2017). Social Group Stories in the Media and Child Development. Pediatrics, 140(2), S157-S161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1758w
