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Crime and racial constructions : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia
- Title
- Crime and racial constructions : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia / Jeanette Covington.
- Author
- Covington, Jeanette, 1949-
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 335 p.; 24 cm
- 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." --
- Subject
- 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
- Racism in popular culture > United States
- Crime and race > United States
- United States > Race relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : crime and racial constructions -- Section I: 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 -- Section II: 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-1174
- ISBN
- 9780739125915 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739125915 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780739125922 (pbk.)
- 0739125923 (pbk.)
- 9780739145210 (ebk.)
- 0739145215 (ebk.)
- LCCN
- 2009051200
- OCLC
- 491901309
- Author
- Covington, Jeanette, 1949-
- Title
- Crime and racial constructions : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia / Jeanette Covington.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1174