His work examines how African Americans have been viewed in American history and also how they have come to view themselves as a result of demeaning stereotypes.
Couldn't it be said that beer ads featuring bubble-headed, bikini-wearing surfer girls help create "a hostile unequal living environment" by purveying demeaning stereotypes?
But there was little middle ground there between the exotic and the demeaning everyday stereotypes.
However, demeaning racial stereotypes about Asians (lumping Chinese and Vietnamese people together) are far from uncommon in France.
At NBC, Mr. Gitter said, "What we aspire to do is have a balance of portrayals - avoidance of damaging or demeaning stereotypes."
"For heterosexual students, that model is going to give the lie to the demeaning stereotypes they're likely to come here with."
Some Native American groups insist that the term redskin is a racial epithet, and as such, it perpetuates demeaning stereotypes of Native Americans.
These ideologies, when skewed from reality, distort representation into demeaning stereotype or trivializing portrayals.
Leading black newspapers mounted campaigns against demeaning stereotypes such as the word "coon."
He was what Sandy Koufax had been a generation earlier for Jews, a one-man annihilator of demeaning stereotypes.