Would anybody listen? Media Baised Imaging of the culture of fear of African-Americans during the Watts Riots in 1965 and the Rodney King Riots in 1992 in Los Angeles

Abstract

This thesis answered the question of how the imaging of African-Americans by written media during the Watts Riots in 1965 and the Rodney King Riots in 1992 contributed to the culture of fear of African-Americans in Los Angeles by looking at the different narrative threads (lawlessness, conspiracy and insurrection, and protest) by which race was problematized in the newspapers The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.