Description: Racial Spectacles : Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice, Hardcover by Markovitz, Jonathan, ISBN 0415883458, ISBN-13 9780415883450, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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 spectacles" often work to shore up racist stereotypes, but that they also provide opportunities to challenge prevalent conceptions of race, and can be seized upon as vehicles for social protest. This book explores a series of mass media spectacles revolving around the news, prime-time television, Hollywood cinema, and the internet that have either relied upon, reconfigured, or helped to construct collective memories of race, crime, and (in)justice. The case studies explored include the Scottsboro interracial rape case of the 1930s, the Kobe Bryant rape case, the Los Angeles Police Department’s "Rampart scandal," the Abu Ghraib photographs, and a series of racist incidents at the University of California. This book will prove to be important not only for courses on race and media, but also for any reader interested in issues of the media's role in social justice.
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Book Title: Racial Spectacles : Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice
Number of Pages: 228 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Social Sciences
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 454 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Jonathan Markovitz
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
