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UNINA9910781375203321 |
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Autore |
Markovitz Jonathan |
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Titolo |
Racial spectacles : explorations in media, race, and justice / / Jonathan Markovitz |
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New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-91125-1 |
1-283-10574-8 |
9786613105745 |
1-136-91126-X |
0-203-84321-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Racial Spectacles; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. "Exploding the Myth of the Black Rapist": Collective Memory and the Scottsboro Nine; 2. Anatomy of a Spectacle: Race, Gender, and Memory in the Kobe Bryant Rape Case; 3. Framing Police Corruption: The LAPD Rampart Scandal in the News; 4. Reel Bad Cops: Hollywood's Appropriation of the Rampart Scandal; 5. Racial Spectacles under an Anti-Racist Gaze: New Media and Abu Ghraib; Conclusion: Lessons from a Campus Movement; Works Cited; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 representations of crime and racialized violence. Jonathan Markovitz argues that mass media ""racial |
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