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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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Title Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation
Author David Wilson
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition; F
Pages 212
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
Publication date 2005-06-01
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780815630807 / 0815630808
Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
Dimensions 9.32 x 6.38 x 0.88 in (23.67 x 16.21 x 2.24 cm)
Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
Category Sociology
Library of Congress subjects Discourse analysis, Crime in mass media
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004028510
Dewey Decimal Code 364.349

About the author

David Wilson is an associate professor of geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Hardback. New. This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black" - referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. 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.