Color Images Of Crime Summary

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The book “Images of Color, Images of Crime,” chapter seven, The Social Construction of the African American Criminal Stereotype, talks about how the most common stereotype about African American men is that they engage in drug abuse in disproportionate numbers (Rome, 2006). Also, the chapters goes into talking about how minority youths are more likely to be arrested, held in jail, sent to juvenile or adult court for trial, convicted, and given longer prison time (Rome, 2006). The context of this chapter impacts me the most because many portrayals of black men in the media continue to focus on the negative. I believe that the way that the media portrayals black males affect their life chances. The distorted portrayals of blacks in the media