Inventing Black-on-Black Violence

Inventing Black-on-Black Violence
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 0815630808
ISBN-13 : 9780815630807
Rating : 4/5 (807 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Inventing Black-on-Black Violence by : David Wilson

Download or read book Inventing Black-on-Black Violence written by David Wilson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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