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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
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