Aug 17, 2011
Speaking in Stereotypes
Beta city-blog SocialStudiesDC — having already offered up dramatic readings of Missed Connections — has hit another home run with this map, which attempts to organize the District through various stereotypes.
Nov 06, 2010
TV Shows: Perpetuating D.C. Stereotypes as Always
Photo by amy.arch. D.C. portrayed inaccurately? In a Hollywood production? Yeah, it’s not the first time. I’m sure it won’t be the last. But it’s still worth pointing out when it happens: And Now, Anacostia’s (and now ANC 6D07 representative) David Garber bemoans Anacostia’s poor treatment in the Fox TV show Bones. The dialogue went something like this: Hannah: What do you know about Anacostia? Booth: It’s a neighborhood about a mile and a…
Jul 11, 2008
Overheard in D.C.: Stereotypical
D.C. as a city is the victim of a lot of stereotypes — the murder capital, crackhead mayor, bad baseball team. One of those is true, but there are at least a handful of other U.S. cities with worse murder rates than us these days, and the worst thing people have dug up about Adrian Fenty is that he appeared in an ad promoting the District wearing his parents’ store’s logo on his shirt. Not…