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The color of crime / Katheryn Russell-Brown.

Location

Public Safety Canada Library

Resource

Books & Reports

Alternate Title

Colour of crime

Call Number

HV 9950 R87 2009

Authors

Publishers

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.

Description

ix, 213 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Summary

The author continues to ask, 10 years after the first edition of this title, why do Black and White Americans perceive police actions so differently? Is White fear of Black crime justified? Do African Americans really protect their own? Should they? And why are we still talking about O.J.? Russell-Brown surveys the landscape of American crime and identifies some of the country's most significant racial pathologies. In this new edition, each chapter is updated and revised, and two new chapters have been added. Enriched with twenty-five new cases, the chapter on "Racial Hoaxes" demonstrates that "playing the race card" is still a popular ploy. Through her analysis of cases, ideological and media trends, issues, and practices that resonate below the public radar, Russell-Brown explores the tacit and subtle ways that deviance is systematically linked to people of color.

Subject

Edition

2nd ed.

Contents

1. Media messages. -- 2. The skin game. -- 3. History's strange fruit. -- 4. Discrimination or disparity? -- 5. Are we still talking about O.J.? -- 6. Racial hoaxes. -- 7. White crime. -- 8. Race and crime literacy.

Series

Critical America.

Items

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