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Product Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, representations of âwhite collarâ Americansâthe âmiddleâ social strata H. L. Mencken ridiculed as boobus Americanusâtook on an ever-greater prominence within American literature and popular culture...read more
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9780820313672 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $40.00
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9780820336978 | Univ of Georgia Pr, August 1, 2010, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: At the turn of the twentieth century, representations of âwhite collarâ Americansâthe âmiddleâ social strata H.
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9780820336985 | Univ of Georgia Pr, July 1, 2010, cover price $29.95
9780820309408 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $15.00
Born with white skin in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950, African-American albino Lee Cotton struggles with his identity as a black person capable of gaining entry into white society and experiences in the early years of his life a romance with a Klansman's daughter, a freight train attack, and the women's liberation movement. By the author of Mischief.
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9780151011230 | Houghton Mifflin, October 3, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: African-American albino Lee Cotton struggles with his identity as a black person capable of gaining entry into white society, experiencing a romance with a Klansman's daughter, a freight train attack, and the women's liberation movement.
Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers. Why are we so fascinated with the police and their power? What relation do these pervasive media representations bear to the actual history of modern policing?Christopher P. Wilson explores these questions by examining narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction, and film, showing how they both reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room, and in urban politics. He takes us from Theodore Roosevelt's year of reform with the 1890s NYPD to the rise of "community policing," from the classic "police procedural" film The Naked City to the bestselling novels of LAPD veteran Joseph Wambaugh. Wilson concludes by demonstrating the ways in which popular storytelling about police power has been intimately tied to the course of modern liberalism, and to the rising tide of neoconservatism today."A thorough, brilliant blend that crosses disciplines."âChoice"[S]ophisticated, highly theoretical and ambitious. . . . Connects the history of policing to cultural representations of crime, criminals and cops."âTimes Literary Supplement"[A] deeply satisfying approach to the crime narrative. . . . [Wilson] focuses, ultimately, on the role of police power in cultural storytelling."âAmerican Quarterly (view table of contents)
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9780226901329 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $72.00
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9780226901336 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers.
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9780233987132 | Andre Deutsch Ltd, January 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Charlie discovers that he was an abandoned baby, the last of the Xique Xiques of Brazil, adopted by an English professor, and that he has alien qualities that he must hide in order to get along in human society
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