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This book examines how the mediaincluding advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fictionhas used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States.,
About the Author
Brian Behnken is an expert in 20th century United States history and specializes in the fields of African American and Mexican American history. His scholarship has explored relations between Latino/as and blacks during the civil rights period, police violence, and ethno-racial forms of nationalism, among other subjects. He also edits the book series Racism in American Institutions, which is published by Praeger. He is an associate professor in the Department of History and the U.S. Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University.
