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Race, Sex, And Suspicion - 9780275974626

Un libro in lingua di Jones D. Marvin edito da Greenwood Pub Group, 2005

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Jones (law, U. of Miami School of Law) examines why the lives of Black American males are metaphors written on a palimpsest, erased from present view but nevertheless ever-present. Rather than understanding individual black men as having differing characters, skills, and needs, whites assign them the mythical identity of "black males" and use this myth to personify societal problems such as violence and disease. As evidence he describes the disturbing twists of the New York "Jogger Trial," the orchestration of the imageries of rap, the perpetual struggle of middle-class black men, the delusions of the justice system, and the manipulation of the image of the black male as athlete. In the process he finds the myth of the black male to be a social construct that is completely outside the bounds of reality, but still a powerful weapon used by whites to erase real lives of black men in America. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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