Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Jeanette Covington reviews a number of films that have been released from the 1970s through the present in which black males are depicted as violent and threatening and likewise consider...