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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