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.