Research Catalog

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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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 American women in motion pictures
• African Americans in motion pictures
• Crime and race > United States
• Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States
• Racism in popular culture > United States
• Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
• United States > Race relations
• Violence in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780739125915 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739125915 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739145210 (ebk.)
• 0739145215 (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2009051200

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library