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African American men as “criminal and dangerous”: Implications of media portrayals of crime on the “criminalization” of African American men

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    Mary Beth Oliver Ph.D. (associate professor of communication that teaches media effects, communication research, quantitative research methods, and interpersonal communication)

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Oliver, M.B. African American men as “criminal and dangerous”: Implications of media portrayals of crime on the “criminalization” of African American men. Journal of African American Studies 7, 3–18 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-003-1006-5

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