White victims, black villains : gender, race and crime news in US culture / Carol A. Stabile.

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Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2006.
Autor Principal:
Stabile, Carol A.
Subjects:
Crime and the press > United States > History.
African Americans > Press coverage > History.
Women > Press coverage > United States > History.
Formato: Libro
White victims, black villains : gender, race and crime news in US culture /
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "The most disgusting objects of both sexes" : gender and race in the episodic crime news of the 1830s
  • 2. The cult of dead womanhood : protectors, villains, and victims in the origins of serialized crime news
  • 3. "The innocent cause of all these troubles" : black victims of the 1863 anti-draft riots
  • 4. "The malicious and untruthful white press" : lynch narratives and criminalization
  • 5. Monopolists of reason : the demise of sentimental crime reporting
  • 6. From the war on poverty to the war on crime
  • 7. Criminalizing black culture.

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