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Representations today
· Newspaper articles. Lack of positive role models and fathers.
‘by other trends within black communities, such as lack of father involvement and the lack of positive role models, and the presence of powerful alternative negative role models in media and popular culture".
· Gangs/ going to prison.
· Films coach carter in particular reference to the character cruz. Look at the mis- en scene.
· Coach carter as an educational role model.


More recently teen movies which cover issues dealing with black youth tend to make flawed stereotypes. Yet you can say that these films tackling issues to do with black youth are only portraying the youth in how they shown in the media through these stereotypes. They reinforce these representations to an extent. An increasing theme which tends to run in films to do with black youth culture is the absence of a father figure or a positive role model. ‘by other trends within black communities, such as lack of father involvement and the lack of positive role models, and the presence of powerful alternative negative role models in media and popular culture….warns that boys and young men who lack the involvement of a father in their lives can develop "father hunger" - a trauma that leaves them vulnerable to peer pressure and involvement in gang culture.” (3) This quote states that if there is no involvement of a father for the young men then they are more likely to be pressured towards crime. This theme is shown in Coach Carter as a lot of the boys don’t have a father figure, if we look at Timo Cruz a character who has been brought up too fight in gang wars through his uncle who is a well known gang leader in the neighbourhood who has no role model till he meets his basketball coach, however if we look at Tre in Boyz n the Hood he has been brought up in a crime-ridden South Central Los Angeles, California, with his father Jason "Furious" Styles. Furious instructs Tre on his household responsibilities. Although these tasks seem unfair and harsh to Tre, Furious explains that learning responsibility will make Tre a man and keep him from ending up dead or in jail.


(3) http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2103754,00.html