Are all victims white? Are all villains black? This book traces how race and gender have combined in news media narratives about crime and violence in US culture. It argues that the criminalization of African Americans in US culture has been most consistently and effectively legitimized by news media deeply invested in maintaining white supremacy. A study of how cultural anxieties about race and gender influence our beliefs about crime and how crime is reported, through a series of case studies from the early nineteenth centruy to the present.
Are all victims white? Are all villains black? This book traces how race and gender have combined in news media narratives about crime and violence in US culture. It argues that the criminalization of African Americans in US culture has been most consistently and effectively legitimized by news media deeply invested in maintaining white supremacy.A study of how cultural anxieties about race and gender influence our beliefs about crime and how crime is reported, through a series of case studies from the early nineteenth centruy to the present.
Introduction 1. 'The Most Disgusting Objects of Both Sexes': Gender and Race in the Episodic Crime News of the 1830s 2. The Cult of Dead Womanhood: Protectors, Villains, and Victims in the Origins of Serialized Crime News 3. 'The Innocent Cause of All These Troubles': Black Victims and the 1863 Anti-Draft Riots 4. 'The Malicious and Untruthful White Press': Lynch Narratives and Criminalization 5. Monopolists of Reason: The Demise of Sentimental Crime Reporting 6. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime 7. Criminalizing Black Culture
Introduction 1. 'The Most Disgusting Objects of Both Sexes': Gender and Race in the Episodic Crime News of the 1830s 2. The Cult of Dead Womanhood: Protectors, Villains, and Victims in the Origins of Serialized Crime News 3. 'The Innocent Cause of All These Troubles': Black Victims and the 1863 Anti-Draft Riots 4. 'The Malicious and Untruthful White Press': Lynch Narratives and Criminalization 5. Monopolists of Reason: The Demise of Sentimental Crime Reporting 6. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime 7. Criminalizing Black Culture
Introduction 1. 'The Most Disgusting Objects of Both Sexes': Gender and Race in the Episodic Crime News of the 1830s 2. The Cult of Dead Womanhood: Protectors, Villains, and Victims in the Origins of Serialized Crime News 3. 'The Innocent Cause of All These Troubles': Black Victims and the 1863 Anti-Draft Riots 4. 'The Malicious and Untruthful White Press': Lynch Narratives and Criminalization 5. Monopolists of Reason: The Demise of Sentimental Crime Reporting 6. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime 7. Criminalizing Black Culture
Introduction 1. 'The Most Disgusting Objects of Both Sexes': Gender and Race in the Episodic Crime News of the 1830s 2. The Cult of Dead Womanhood: Protectors, Villains, and Victims in the Origins of Serialized Crime News 3. 'The Innocent Cause of All These Troubles': Black Victims and the 1863 Anti-Draft Riots 4. 'The Malicious and Untruthful White Press': Lynch Narratives and Criminalization 5. Monopolists of Reason: The Demise of Sentimental Crime Reporting 6. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime 7. Criminalizing Black Culture
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