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Crime and racial constructions : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia /
This book is an examination of how crime has figured in racial representations of blacks in media (especially film) and academia in the post-civil rights era.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
c2010.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : crime and racial constructions
- Images of black male criminality in media and the social sciences. Black images in the post-civil rights era
- Hollywood and black protest : the rise of ghetto action movies
- Black violence, white violence : cinematic images of the urban underclass
- Making race matter : how criminologists look at African Americans and violence
- Americanizing black violence : making criminology race-free
- Cinematic and academic images of black female criminals and victims. Black women on the silver screen
- Black women, violence and masculinization
- Comforting fictions: black women, Hollywood and color-blind racism.