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The DSK Case. Master of Arts (Journalism), May 2012, 95 Pp., References, 156 Titles WESTERN MEDIA ATTITUDES TOWARD AN IMMIGRANT OF COLOR SEX CRIME VICTIM: CASE STUDY: THE DSK CASE Jenny Mumah, B.Sc. Thesis Prepared for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS May 2012 APPROVED: Tracy Everbach, Major Professor James Mueller, Committee Member Nann Goplerud, Committee Member Roy Busby, Interim Dean of the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism James D. Meernik, Acting Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School Mumah, Jenny. Western media attitudes toward an immigrant of color sex crime victim: Case study: The DSK case. Master of Arts (Journalism), May 2012, 95 pp., references, 156 titles. About 30 million women in the U.S. are estimated to be victims of sex crimes in their lifetimes. However, sex crimes, especially those committed against immigrants are the least reported crime in the country. Some sex crime victims say the fear of media criticism discourages them from reporting the crime. In May 2011, an African maid working at a New York hotel accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former director of the International Monetary Fund, of sexually assaulting her. This qualitative content analysis examined the coverage of the DSK case, by three leading international newspapers: the New York Times, The Guardian and Le Monde. Findings suggest that Strauss-Kahn received more favorable coverage than Diallo. Frames identified in the coverage include the importance of status/prominence, race, culture differences, victim-blaming, male privilege, socioeconomic differences and focus on appearance. The study recommends that news organizations avoid judgmental coverage of sex crimes and consider identifying victims by allowing them to tell their side of the story. Copyright 2012 by Jenny Mumah ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to the members of my thesis committee for their support and guidance during my stay at the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism. I owe my success partly to the three of you: James Mueller, Nann Goplerud and Tracy Everbach. Special thanks go to my committee chair, Tracy Everbach. Your mentorship and friendship have taught me that I can successful at whatever I do irrespective of my race or gender. My new family at the Mayborn was also very instrumental to my success as a graduate student. Julie Scharnberg, you have been a mother to me and I cannot thank you enough for ensuring that I was aware of things that mattered to my success. Thank you to all of my friends. Your love and prayers are highly appreciated. Thank you for understanding when I was so engaged with my studies that I could not communicate with you. I would also like to say a big thank you to my family members in the U.S. and Cameroon. Your support, prayers and encouragement saw me through this journey called graduate school. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... iii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 1 Contextualizing Sex Crimes Against Immigrant Women .............................................. 1 Relationship between Media and Rape Victims ....................................................... 2 Background to the DSK Case and Victim Privacy .................................................... 5 Importance of Study ............................................................................................... 11 Research Question .................................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................ 15 Theory ....................................................................................................................... 15 Black Feminist Thought .......................................................................................... 15 Definitions of Rape and Relationship to Hegemonic Theory .................................. 16 Rape Statistics and Media’s Role in the Sex Crime Issue ...................................... 18 The Place of Nationality and Race in the Story ...................................................... 24 Implications of the Perp Walk ................................................................................. 29 The Historical Misrepresentation of the African Woman ........................................ 31 CHAPTER III METHOD................................................................................................ 35 Frame Analysis .......................................................................................................... 37 CHAPTER IV RESULTS .............................................................................................. 40 Summary of Method .................................................................................................. 40 Prominence or Status is Most Important ................................................................ 40 “Race Plays a Factor in Coverage” ........................................................................ 44 We vs. Them .......................................................................................................... 47 iv Victim-Blaming ....................................................................................................... 53 Strauss-Kahn as a Sexual Predator ....................................................................... 55 Focus on Details .................................................................................................... 58 It is an Economic and Political Crisis ...................................................................... 60 Failure to Put Rape in Context ............................................................................... 63 It is the DSK Case and Not a Sexual Assault Case ............................................... 64 Focus on Appearances .......................................................................................... 65 CHAPTER V Discussion and Conclusion ..................................................................... 68 Discussion ................................................................................................................. 68 Defining Problems .................................................................................................. 68 Diagnosing Causes ................................................................................................ 72 Evaluating Actions .................................................................................................. 72 Prescribing Solutions ............................................................................................. 73 Limitations and Future Research ............................................................................... 74 Conclusion and Recommendations ........................................................................... 75 REFERENCES .............................................................................................................. 79 v CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Contextualizing Sex Crimes Against Immigrant Women Each year, tens of thousands of women are raped or sexually assaulted in the United States of America. In 2010 alone, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that 84,767 sex crimes were reported to law enforcement. The numbers are so high that the National Institute of Justice and the Department of Defense estimates that one out of every five women (that is, about 30 million women) in the U.S. has suffered an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime (Rabin, 2011). While men sometimes fall victim to sex crimes, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) reports that 9 out of 10 rape victims are women. When further broken down, these figures show the uneven number of rape among women of different races. Women of color make up a larger percentage of sex crime victims. In fact, RAINN reports that Black women make up 18.8% of rape victims, a figure one-percentage point higher than the number of White women who are victims of the same crimes. On May 14, 2011, a maid at New York’s luxurious Sofitel Hotel alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by the then managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK). The alleged victim in this story is 32- year-old Nafissatou Diallo. She is a West African immigrant from Guinea. Nafissatou Diallo is a perfect representation of the above mentioned rape statistics. Not only does she claim that she was sexually assaulted, but she is also Black, which makes her a minority and she is a woman. However, she falls into the category of the fewer women who have accused men of a different race of raping or sexually assaulting them. 1 Approximately 88% of rapes and sexual assault cases in the U.S. involve people of the same race (Greenfield, 1997). Diallo is not only a Black in the U.S., but she is an immigrant. As of 2010, about 36.7 million people living in the U.S. were foreign-born, accounting for 12% of the American population (US Census Bureau, 2010). However, this rather small proportion of the population makes up a significant percentage of violent crime victims. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene estimates that this population segment makes up about 51% of intimate partner homicide victims. A recent study by the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that immigrant females are also likely to make up a huge percentage of women who do not report their rape (Reed,
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