Crime and racial constructions
Subtitle: cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia
By: Jeanette Covington.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780739125915; 9780739145210
Subjects: 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; United States -- Race relations; Racism in popular culture -- United States; Crime and race -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : crime and racial constructions; title: Images of black male criminality in media and the social sciences. Black images in the post-civil rights era; title: Hollywood and black protest : the rise of ghetto action movies; title: Black violence, white violence : cinematic images of the urban underclass; title: Making race matter : how criminologists look at African Americans and violence; title: Americanizing black violence : making criminology race-free; title: Cinematic and academic images of black female criminals and victims. Black women on the silver screen; title: Black women, violence and masculinization; title: Comforting fictions: black women, Hollywood and color-blind racism.