March 05, 2005
Book: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Developed from a special issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, this book presents an overview of the problem, discusses the context of anti-gay violence, focuses on both victims and perpetrators and concludes with coverage of a variety of community responses across the nation. Each section opens with a survivor’s actual story - first person accounts - to give the reader insight into the reality of this serious social problem.
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Book: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence
Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence
This book addresses a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of intergroup violence manifest as discrimination. It explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people - Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, and, on occasion, women, and those with disabilities - have increasingly captured notice, while similar acts of bias-motivated violence continue to go unnoticed? It also contributes to the discourse of criminology by considering how “legal mobilization” has brought about whole new categories of statutory criminal conduct.
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Book: The Spectacle of Violence
The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia,Gender and Knowledge
“The Spectacle of Violence explores the issues surrounding violence and hostility towards lesbians and gay men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with women reflecting a range of experiences of verbal hostility, physical violence and sexual violence, Gail Mason asks fundamental questions about where violence comes from and what effects it has. How do lesbians and gay men manage the risk of violence? And what is the relationship between violence and power?”
“Challenging current thinking, Mason highlights the ways in which different identities, different bodies and different systems of thought interact. She argues for the importance of thinking about homophobic violence in the context of other core issues such as gender and race.”
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Book: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Inner-City Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules — based largely on an individual’s ability to command respect — is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson’s incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
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Book: Media and Race in America
The Black Image in the White Mind
The Black Image in the White Mind offers the most comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks. Using the media as barometers of race relations, Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki explore thetreatment of African Americans on network and local news to incisively uncover the messages sent about race by the entertainment industry. While the authors find very little in the media that intentionally promotes racism, they find even less that advances racial harmony.
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Book: Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media
Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media
This book provides rich and detailed accounts of how the media filters racial/ethnic identity through economic or sensationalized perspectives in newspapers, films, television, and radio. By exploring media descriptions of various racial/ethnic groups, Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media provides opportunities to discover, debate, and discuss issues surrounding race/ethnicity and the role of the media in American society.
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