Burying Don Imus
Subtitle: anatomy of a scapegoat
By: Michael Awkward.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816667413; 9780816667420
Subjects: Imus, Don; Radio broadcasters -- United States; Racism -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "What evil look like"; title: Humor as hate speech; title: The tight-lipped refusal to laugh; title: Racial violence and collective trauma; title: In Al Sharpton's crosshairs; title: The appeal of Imus in the morning; title: The rough girls of Rutgers; title: Hard-core misogyny, the hip-hop lexicon; title: Role-play, nigger jokes, and the politics of hair; title: Instant experts and false accusers : the Duke Lacrosse Team controversy; title: Conclusion : Imus in the morning redux.