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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

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.

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide