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Author:

Markovitz, Jonathan.

Title:

Racial spectacles : explorations in media, race, and justice / Jonathan Markovitz.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xi, 227 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Mass media and minorities--United States.
Minorities in mass media.
Mass media and race relations--United States.
Mass media--Objectivity--United States.
Mass media and criminal justice--United States.
African Americans in mass media.
African Americans in mass media--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Exploding the myth of the black rapist" : collective memory and the Scottsboro Nine -- Anatomy of a spectacle : race, gender, and memory in the Kobe Bryant rape case -- Framing police corruption : the LAPD Rampart scandal in the news -- Reel bad cops : Hollywood's appropriation of the Rampart scandal -- Racial spectacles under an anti-racist gaze : new media and Abu Ghraib -- Conclusion: Lessons from a campus movement.

ISBN:

0203843215 (ebook)
9780203843215 (ebook)
0415883830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415883832 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415883458 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415883450 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)651914893

LCCN:

2010042048

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)