Markovitz, Jonathan.

Racial spectacles : explorations in media, race, and justice / Jonathan Markovitz. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - 227 p. : ill.

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.

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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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