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Savage portrayals : race, media, and the Central Park jogger story  Cover Image Book Book

Savage portrayals : race, media, and the Central Park jogger story

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  • ISBN: 9781439906347 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1439906343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 233 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Reconnecting new forms of inequality to their roots -- A jogger is raped in Central Park -- The position of the black man in the cult of white womanhood -- Salvaging the "savage" : a racial frame that refuses to die -- A participant observes how content emerges -- The "facts" emerge to convict the innocent -- The case falls apart : media's brief mea culpa -- Selling savage portrayals : young Black and Latino males in the carceral state -- They didn't do it!
Subject: Central Park Jogger Rape Trial, New York, N.Y., 1990 -- Press coverage
Rape -- Press coverage -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
Violent crimes -- Press coverage -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
African Americans in mass media
Hispanic Americans in mass media
Racism -- United States

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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