White victims, black villains : gender, race, and crime news in US culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stabile, Carol A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:	Crime and the press > United States > History. African Americans > Press coverage > History. Women > Press coverage > United States > History.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

"The most disgusting objects of both sexes" : gender and race in the episodic crime news of the 1830s
The cult of dead womanhood : protectors, villains, and victims in the origins of serialized crime news
"The innocent cause of all these troubles" : black victims and the 1863 anti-draft riots
"The malicious and untruthful white press" : lynch narratives and criminalization
Monopolists of reason : the demise of sentimental crime reporting
From the war on poverty to the war on crime
Criminalizing black culture.