You're dead---so what? media, police, and the invisibility of Black women as victims of homicide
"Though numerous studies have been conducted regarding perceived racial bias in newspaper reporting of violent crimes, few studies have focused on the intersections of race and gender in determining the extent and prominence of this coverage, and more specifically how the lack of attention to v...
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East Lansing
Michigan State University Press
[2015]©2015, 2015
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-109) and index
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1. Black women as homicide victims : reality vs. media representation
- 2. The deserving vs. undeserving victim : case studies of biased media reporting and law enforcement intervention
- 3. An uneasy alliance : the symbiotic relationship between the media and law enforcement
- 4. Looking at media bias in three major city newspapers : results of author's research
- 5. Making the invisible visible : minorities' efforts to obtain recognition for forgotten victims
- Conclusion