Savage Portrayals

Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story

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Beschreibung

<div>In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example of “wilding”-episodes of poor, minority youths roaming the streets looking for trouble. Police intent on immediate justice for the victim coerced five African-American and Latino boys to plead guilty. The teenage boys were quickly convicted and imprisoned. Natalie Byfield, who covered the case for the <i>New York Daily News, </i>now revisits the story of the Central Park Five from her perspective as a black female reporter in <i>Savage Portrayals. </i></div><div>Byfield illuminates the race, class, and gender bias in the massive media coverage of the crime and the prosecution of the now-exonerated defendants. Her sociological analysis and first-person account persuasively argue that the racialized reportage of the case buttressed efforts to try juveniles as adults across the nation.</div><div><i>Savage Portrayals </i>casts new light on this famous crime and its far-reaching consequences for the wrongly accused and the justice system.</div>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781439906347

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

225 x 149 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Verlag / Hersteller

Temple University Press