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vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Media Messages 6 2 The Skin Game 23 3 History’s Strange Fruit 35 4 Discrimination or Disparity? 53 5 Are We Still Talking about O.J.? 75 6 Racial Hoaxes 98 7 White Crime 128 8 Race and Crime Literacy 149 Appendix A: Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act of 2000 161 Appendix B: Racial Hoaxes: Summaries of Ninety-Two Cases 163 Notes 187 Selected Bibliography 199 Index 209 About the Author 213 Russell-Brown_pi-x.indd vii Russell-Brown_pi-x.indd vii 8/22/08 10:06:14 AM 8/22/08 10:06:14 AM Russell-Brown_pi-x.indd viii Russell-Brown_pi-x.indd viii 8/22/08 10:06:14 AM 8/22/08 10:06:14 AM ...

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