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Savage portrayals : race, media, and the Central Park jogger story / Natalie P. Byfield.
Van Pelt Library HV6568.N5 B94 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byfield, Natalie P., 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central Park Jogger Rape Trial, New York, N.Y., 1990--Press coverage.
- Central Park Jogger Rape Trial, New York, N.Y., 1990.
- Rape--Press coverage--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.
- Rape.
- Violent crimes--Press coverage--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.
- Violent crimes.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- African Americans in mass media.
- Hispanic Americans in mass media.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Press coverage.
- United States.
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 233 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Police intent on immediate justice for the victim coerced five African-American and Latino boys to plead guilty. The teenage boys were quickly convicted and imprisoned. Natalie Byfield, who covered the case for the New York Daily News, now revisits the story of the Central Park Five, illuminating the race, class, and gender bias in the massive media coverage of the crime and the prosecution of the now-exonerated defendants. Her sociological analysis and first-person account persuasively argue that the racialized reportage of the case buttressed efforts to try juveniles as adults across the nation. Savage Portrayals casts new light on this famous crime and its far-reaching consequences for the wrongly accused and the justice system. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Reconnecting new forms of inequality to their roots
- A jogger is raped in Central Park
- The position of the black man in the cult of white womanhood
- Salvaging the "savage": a racial frame that refuses to die
- A participant observes how content emerges
- The "facts" emerge to convict the innocent
- The case falls apart: media's brief mea culpa
- Selling savage portrayals: incorporating young black males in the carceral state
- They didn't do it!
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439906330
- 1439906335
- 9781439906347
- 1439906343
- OCLC:
- 838792550
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