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Markovitz, Jonathan

 
9780415883450: Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice
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ISBN 10: 0415883458 ISBN 13: 9780415883450
Editorial: Routledge, 2011

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

Jonathan Markovitz is a lecturer in the departments of Communication at the University of California, San Diego and at California State University, San Marcos. He received his PhD in Sociology from UCSD in 1999. He has published articles on race relations in the United States, collective memory, film, gender, and popular culture. He is the author of Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415883458
ISBN 13 
9780415883450
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
240
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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München
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9780415883832: Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice

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ISBN 10:  0415883830 ISBN 13:  9780415883832
Editorial: Routledge, 2011
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