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Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation

Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation

Wilson, David

Hardcover

Series: Space, Place and Society

Black American StudiesCriminologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0815630808
ISBN13: 9780815630807
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

This book explores the societal construction of black-on-black referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losses, debased identities, and rampant physical decay made American blacks seem ripe for explosive behavior. Many people blamed black lifestyle, values, and culture. David Wilson shows how America imbued a process of violence with race and accepted it as one of the country's most vexing ills during the Reagan era and afterward. Based on statistics, ethnographies, anecdotal accounts, and national reportage the findings are hard to dispute.

Wilson tells of prominent conservative and liberal writers, reporters and politicians who collectively nurtured this issue, then parlayed it into truth in the public mind. Mixing memoirs, critical geographical studies, and race theory, the book shows how vulnerable groups of society can become pawns in an acute process of racial demonization. And how, in America, this allowed blacks to be marginalized.

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