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Author Covington, Jeanette, 1949-

Title Crime and racial constructions : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia / Jeanette Covington.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]
©2010
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 335 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African American women in motion pictures.
African American women in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Violence in motion pictures.
Violence in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Racism in popular culture -- United States.
Racism in popular culture.
Crime and race -- United States.
Crime and race.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Covington, Jeanette, 1949- Crime and racial constructions. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010 9780739125915 (DLC) 2009051200 (OCoLC)491901309
ISBN 9780739145210 (electronic book)
0739145215 (electronic book)
9780739125915 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0739125915 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786612495939

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