Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Savage Portrayals : Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story, Hardback Book

Savage Portrayals : Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story Hardback

Hardback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines.

Many accounts reported the incident as an example of "wilding"-episodes of poor, minority youths roaming the streets looking for trouble.

Police intent on immediate justice for the victim coerced five African-American and Latino boys to plead guilty.

The teenage boys were quickly convicted and imprisoned.

Natalie Byfield, who covered the case for the New York Daily News, now revisits the story of the Central Park Five from her perspective as a black female reporter in Savage Portrayals. Byfield illuminates the race, class, and gender bias in the massive media coverage of the crime and the prosecution of the now-exonerated defendants.

Her sociological analysis and first-person account persuasively argue that the racialized reportage of the case buttressed efforts to try juveniles as adults across the nation.

Savage Portrayals casts new light on this famous crime and its far-reaching consequences for the wrongly accused and the justice system.

Information

Other Formats

Save 6%

£86.00

£80.55

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information