Carol A Stabile

White Victims, Black Villains

Gender, Race, and Crime News in Us Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Are all victims white? Are all villains black? This book traces how race and gender have combined in news media narratives about crime and violence in US culture. It argues that the criminalization of African Americans in US culture has been most consistently and effectively legitimized by news media deeply invested in maintaining white supremacy.

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A study of how cultural anxieties about race and gender influence our beliefs about crime and how crime is reported, through a series of case studies from the early nineteenth centruy to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 163mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415374811
• ISBN-10: 0415374812
• Artikelnr.: 22782505

Autorenporträt

Carol A. Stabile

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'The Most Disgusting Objects of Both Sexes': Gender and
Race in the Episodic Crime News of the 1830s 2. The Cult of Dead Womanhood:
Protectors, Villains, and Victims in the Origins of Serialized Crime News
3. 'The Innocent Cause of All These Troubles': Black Victims and the 1863
Anti-Draft Riots 4. 'The Malicious and Untruthful White Press': Lynch
Narratives and Criminalization 5. Monopolists of Reason: The Demise of
Sentimental Crime Reporting 6. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
7. Criminalizing Black Culture