Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about
African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images
of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance
since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights
Movement and the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It
does so by reviewing a number of films that have been released from
the 1970s until the present in which black males are depicted as
violent and threatening. It likewise considers how these same films
represent black females as prostitutes; drug addicts; and
irresponsible, abusive mothers who spawn violence in their
children. Because these on-screen images of a violent, apolitical,
and immoral black underclass find their way into the criminological
literature, the book also takes a look at how criminologists use
these images to link crime to underclass culture. Both Hollywood
and criminologists alike manage to ignore how black activism during
the 1960s social movements actually sparked black opposition to the
kind of black-on-black crime that is routinely depicted on-screen.
By taking a critical look at these negative images, Crime and
Racial Constructions seeks to correct some of the distortions that
arise from the undue academic and cinematic focus on black
criminals at the expense of racially conscious blacks.
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