Inventing black-on-black violence discourse, space, and representation David Wilso

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, David, 1956- author.

Series:

Space, place, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime and race--United States.

Crime and race.

Violence--United States--Public opinion.

Violence.

African American youth--Public opinion.

African American youth.

Inner cities--United States--Public opinion.

Inner cities.

Fear of crime--United States.

Fear of crime.

Crime in mass media.

African Americans in mass media.

Discourse analysis.

Violence--Public opinion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) illustrations

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York Syracuse University Press 2005

Summary:

"This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black violence"--Referring to the 1980s when acts of aggression among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losses, debased identities, and rampant physical decay made American blacks seem ripe for explosive behavior. Many people blamed black lifestyle, values, and culture. David Wilson shows how America imbued a process of violence with race and accepted it as one of the country's most vexing ills during the Reagan era and afterward. Based on statistics, ethnographies, anecdotal accounts, and national reportage, these findings are hard to dispute." "Wilson tells of prominent conservative and liberal writers, reporters, and politicians who collectively nurtured this issue, then parlayed it into "truth" in the public mind. Mixing memoirs, critical geographic studies, and race theory, the book shows how vulnerable groups of society can become pawns in an acute process of racial demonization and how, in America, this behavior allowed blacks to be marginalized"-- Jacket

Contents:

The nature of discourse

Postwar representations of urban black youth, 1950-1980

The conservative discourse

The liberal discourse

Communicative similarities in discourse

The impacts

Contesting the vision.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Wilson, David, 1956- Inventing black-on-black violence

OCLC:

1564673332

Access Restriction:

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