Latinx Reporting in Cobb County

    This week is an interesting week for me because I finally wrapped up the research process. I found it to be such a great experience to delve deeper into learning more about the Latinx community and the way their experiences can be seen through their art. 

    The readings this week discussed how secondary sources can speak to each other and I find that to be a great concept. As time goes by, secondary sources can reference and learn from other sources to help expand or show conflicting arguments against other sources. It really speaks to the research process as a whole and makes me think of how this concept could have affected my research process. As a researcher for this project, I wanted to find as much detail as possible about the Latinx community, and as I delved deeper into Contrapunto it was much easier to find primary sources of individual artists.

    What struck me, however, as disappointing, was how much more difficult it was to find secondary sources on these topics. The readings this week clarified one thing for me. The people who write newspapers/articles have control over what they inform the general public on. While the readings discussed how journalists can sometimes piggyback off of other sources, what this means to me is that they decide what sources to look at and report on. 

    What I find is important to note about my research phase for this project and for any research project as a whole is that sometimes you may need to delve deeper into primary sources to find more information about a particular community or culture. It is evident that minority communities do not get enough attention in our local newspapers. I had to go back to 2004 to find anything from our University on the Latinx artist community. However, when looking up artists in general, I could find tons of sources featuring other artists, who were not minorities. 

    This is a conversation being had between reporters and the general public- or lack of conversation thereof. What I question is- how are there so many positive sources reporters can go off of to report on the Latinx community and instead the Latinx community is typically only brought up in newspapers when it is a report on crime or violence?

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