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[lotesse]

Hey guys, I'm having one of those moments when I want to transport my Internet Knowledge (tm) into academic writing and am trying to find apt sources and/or research keywords but can't. Somebody's got to be writing about that thing that happens with tearjerker portrayals and racism, where the tactics of representational sympathy demand the display of a sad-but-deserving victim who can't be too weird or political or angry, and so the whole thing ends up reinforcing kyriarchy overall, right? What do you call that?

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[lannamichaels]

You mean sort of being the Good Victim, or that kind of thing? The victim has to be Good, meaning fitting into X Y and Z, so they aren't the Dangerous Other. Somewhat related to Deserving Poor?

Actually, TV Tropes might have something on this...

[lotesse]

Yes, but I need it for non-Internet stuff! TV Tropes totally knows, but I need, like, a citable academic source. This is the worst part of acafandom: trying to reverse-engineer knowledge bases.

[lannamichaels]

Sorry, I don't know academia sources. :( Last time I've had to, I mostly just hit up Google Scholar. I just searched for "media images of minorities victims" and a bunch came up, so maybe that engine could help?