BPI’s Dyjuan Tatro ’18: The words journalists use often reduce humans to the crimes they commit. But that’s changing.
Racialized language has a long history of permeating journalism, especially in shaping perceptions of crime. Dyjuan Tatro ’18, government affairs and advancement officer at the Bard Prison Initiative, observes that American racism has deep roots in linguistic tropes, a timely reminder that language has never been neutral. “The way we write about individuals comes out of the way that we think about and process the world,” he says. “Journalists writing about these issues have to be really aware of their positionality.”
Post Date: 12-21-2020
Post Date: 12-21-2020