@misc{9237510,
  abstract     = {{America's Next Top Model in the early 2000s was a global cultural phenomenon shown in 170 countries, with an estimate of 100 million viewers. But since 2020, social and established media have taken up the controversies that the show presented. The focus on the contestants as victims places the responsibility on the production and hides the spectators' responsibility for watching it. The analysis is carried out with a multimodal critical discourse analysis. This thesis explores how the contestants on America's Next Top Model negotiated and resisted structural racism openly in the show and analyses why it was not interpreted as resistance. The contestants used their identities to 'talk back' against the harm they had experienced. It also found that manipulation of emotions reinforced harmful stereotypes that delegitimised the contestant’s resistance.}},
  author       = {{Gundersen, Sigrid Gro}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Black Resistance and Agency in America’s Next Top Model}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}