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Racial spectacles : explorations in media, race, and justice / Jonathan Markovitz.

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Main Author:	Markovitz, Jonathan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2011.
Subjects:	Mass media and minorities > United States. Minorities in mass media. Mass media and race relations > United States. Mass media > Objectivity > United States. Mass media and criminal justice > United States. African Americans in mass media.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
"Exploding the myth of the black rapist" : collective memory and the Scottsboro Nine
Anatomy of a spectacle : race, gender, and memory in the Kobe Bryant rape case
Framing police corruption : the LAPD Rampart scandal in the news
Reel bad cops : Hollywood's appropriation of the Rampart scandal
Racial spectacles under an anti-racist gaze : new media and Abu Ghraib
Conclusion : lessons from a campus movement.