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Crime and racial constructions : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia / Jeanette Covington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Covington, Jeanette, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- African American women in motion pictures.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
- Violence in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Racism in popular culture--United States.
- Racism in popular culture.
- Crime and race--United States.
- Crime and race.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia critically examines how the film industry and criminologists have constructed African Americans in their effort to explain observed race differences in crime. Of particular concern is how the images they paint of violent, out-of-control blacks result in hardline criminal justice policies.
- Contents:
- Crime and Racial Constructions; Contents; Introduction; Section I: IMAGES OF BLACK MALE CRIMINALITY IN MEDIA AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; Chapter One: Black Images in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Chapter Two: Hollywood and Black Protest; Chapter Three: Black Violence, White Violence; Chapter Four: Making Race Matter; Chapter Five: Americanizing Black Violence; Section II: CINEMATIC AND ACADEMIC IMAGES OF BLACK FEMALE CRIMINALS AND VICTIMS; Chapter Six: Black Women on the Silver Screen; Chapter Seven: Black Women, Violence and Masculinization; Chapter Eight: Comforting Fictions; Bibliography; Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-20504-3
- 1-282-49593-3
- 9786612495939
- 0-7391-4521-5
- OCLC:
- 659561852
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