Savage Portrayals Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story

Name: Savage Portrayals Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story
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ISBN: 9781439906347

ISBN-10: 1439906343

ISBN-13: 9781439906347

Edition: 2014

Authors: Natalie Byfield

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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 New York Daily News, now revisits the story of the Central Park Five from her perspective as a black female reporter in Savage Portrayals. Byfield illuminates the race, class, and gender bias in the massive media coverage of the crime and the…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 1/20/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English