Racial spectacles
Subtitle: explorations in media, race, and justice
By: Jonathan Markovitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780415883450; 9780415883832; 9780203843215
Subjects: Mass media and criminal justice; African Americans in mass media; Mass media; Mass media and race relations; Mass media and minorities; Minorities in mass media; Objectivity
Description: Racial spectacles : explorations in media, race, and justice examines the crucial role the media has played in circulating and shaping national dialogues about race through demonstrations of crime and racialized violence. Jonathan Markovitz argues that mass media 'racial spectacles' often work to shore up racist stereotypes, but that they also provide opportunities to challenge prevalent conceptions of race, and can be seized upon as vehicles for social protest.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Exploding the myth of the black rapist" : collective memory and the Scottsboro Nine; title: Anatomy of a spectacle : race, gender, and memory in the Kobe Bryant rape case; title: Framing police corruption : the LAPD Rampart scandal in the news; title: Reel bad cops : Hollywood's appropriation of the Rampart scandal; title: Racial spectacles under an anti-racist gaze : new media and Abu Ghraib; title: Conclusion : lessons from a campus movement.