Introduction -- "Exploding the myth of the black rapist" : collective memory and the Scottsboro Nine -- Anatomy of a spectacle : race, gender, and memory in the Kobe Bryant rape case -- Framing police corruption : the LAPD Rampart scandal in the news -- Reel bad cops : Hollywood's appropriation of the Rampart scandal -- Racial spectacles under an anti-racist gaze : new media and Abu Ghraib -- Conclusion : lessons from a campus movement
Summary
Racial Spectacles: Explorations in media, race and justice examines the crucial role the media has played in circulating and shaping national dialogues anbout race through representations of crime and racialized violence. The augthor argues that mass media "racial spectacles: often work to shore up racist stereotypes, but that they also provide opportunities to challenge prevalent conceptions of race, and can be seized upon as vehicles for social protest
