Burying Don Imus : anatomy of a scapegoat /
"That's some nappy-headed hos." With these now-infamous words, uttered in 2007 to describe the supposed appearance of the Rutgers women's basketball team, the radio talk show host Don Imus became the improbable focus of a heated national discussion on race, gender, and the power...
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Table of Contents:
- Scapegoating Imus
- "What evil look like"
- Humor as hate speech
- The tight-lipped refusal to laugh
- Racial violence and collective trauma
- In Al Sharpton's crosshairs
- The appeal of Imus in the morning
- "Nappy-headed hos" in context
- The rough girls of Rutgers
- Hard-core misogyny, the hip-hop lexicon
- Role-play, nigger jokes, and the politics of hair
- Instant experts and false accusers : the Duke lacrosse team controversy
- Conclusion : Imus in the morning redux.
