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Book Title
Crime and Racial Constructions : Cultural Misinformation About Af
ISBN
9780739125922

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Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10
0739125923
ISBN-13
9780739125922
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109061065

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Crime and Racial Constructions : Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Film / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Film / History & Criticism, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Criminology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts, Social Science
Author
Jeanette Covington
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
"This well-researched and referenced work makes a serious contribution to the crime and media literature. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- Choice Reviews, This well-researched and referenced work makes a serious contribution to the crime and media literature. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
791.43089/96073
Table Of Content
Chapter 1 Introduction: Crime and Racial Constructions Part 2 Section I: Images of Black Male Criminality in Media and the Social Sciences Chapter 3 Chapter 1 - Black Images in the Post-Civil Rights Era Chapter 4 Chapter 2 - Hollywood and Black Protest: The Rise of Ghetto Action Movies Chapter 5 Chapter 3 - Black Violence, White Violence: Cinematic Images of the Urban Underclass Chapter 6 Chapter 4 - Making Race Matter: How Criminologists Look at African-Americans and Violence Chapter 7 Chapter 5 - Americanizing Black Violence: Making Criminology Race-Free Part 8 Section II: Cinematic and Academic Images of Black Female Criminals and Victims Chapter 9 Chapter 6 - Black Women on the Silver Screen Chapter 10 Chapter 7 - Black Women, Violence and Masculinization Chapter 11 Chapter 8 - Comforting Fictions: Black Women, Hollywood and Color-Blind Racism
Synopsis
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., Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It does so by reviewing a number of films that have been released from the 1970s until the present in which black males are depicted as violent and threatening. It likewise considers how these same films represent black females as prostitutes; drug addicts; and irresponsible, abusive mothers who spawn violence in their children. Because these on-screen images of a violent, apolitical, and immoral black underclass find their way into the criminological literature, the book also takes a look at how criminologists use these images to link crime to underclass culture. Both Hollywood and criminologists alike manage to ignore how black activism during the 1960s social movements actually sparked black opposition to the kind of black-on-black crime that is routinely depicted on-screen. By taking a critical look at these negative images, Crime and Racial Constructions seeks to correct some of the distortions that arise from the undue academic and cinematic focus on black criminals at the expense of racially conscious blacks.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.N4C625 2011

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