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| Ro <0 8) 2 i an 0 oO oO = uw ll Mm oT Mm JEANETTE COVINGTON CULTURAL MISINFORMATION | ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ~— MEDIA AND ACADEMIA Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https ://archive.org/details/crimeracialconst0000covi DATE DUE t GAYLOR' fe) PRINTED IN U.S.A. Crime and Racial Constructions Crime and Racial Constructions Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia Jeanette Covington LEXINGTON BOooKs A division of ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham * Boulder * New York * Toronto * Plymouth, UK T> OW« AS BWUTOSRMP AFNA S.RI O WTIIRINYVTE ITVREARYS ITY% Fs FIRTRAATR Y Bile Ler. Dd WY S7LVESaLY WD U1 are SRR 8 Bie PRRRES SO Published by Lexington Books A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http://www.lexingtonbooks.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2010 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Covington, Jeanette, 1949— Crime and racial constructions : cultural misinformation about African Americans in media and academia / Jeanette Covington. 5 (hath, Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7391-2591-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-7391-4521-0 (electronic) |. African Americans in motion pictures. 2. African American women in motion pictures. 3. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. 4. Violence in motion pictures. 5. Motion pictures— Social aspects— United States. 6. United States— Race relations. 7. Racism in popular cult—u Urniete d States. 8. Crime and race— United States. I. Title. PN1995.9.N4C625 2010 791 .43089'96073 — dce22 200905 1200 TM ©) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992. Printed in the United States of America For my parents, who were absolutely delighted to have a book on crime, violence and mayhem dedicated to them ii a SS gae =a at a,
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