The Bachelor: Whiteness in the Harem
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Keywords
whiteness, harem, orientalism, race, reality TV, The Bachelor
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/07393180600570733
Abstract
This examination of the representation of whiteness and women of color in the reality-based television series The Bachelor shows how the series is “raced.” It is a context in which only white people find romantic partners, a process that women of color work to facilitate. The Westernized trope of the Eastern harem structures The Bachelor, duplicating in the series the imperialist, Orientalist, and oppressive racist premises of the harem trope.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
No
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Critical Studies in Media Communication, v. 23, issue 1, p. 39-56
Scholar Commons Citation
Dubrofsky, Rachel E., "The Bachelor: Whiteness in the Harem" (2006). Communication Faculty Publications. 600.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/600
