Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation

by David Wilson and David Wilson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630808
• ISBN13: 9780815630807
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"