Racial spectacles [electronic resource] : explorations in media, race, and justice / Jonathan Markovitz.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markovitz, Jonathan
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Racial Spectacles: Case Studies in Media, Race, and Justice
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "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.