Media framing of black youth as muggers built support for authoritarian populism

Evidence

One particular thread which connects this period of his work with that considered in the next two sections concerns the ideological centrality of mediated images of race to the rise of what, in his later analysis, he described as the culture of authoritarian populism. The project that later became known as the classic volume Policing the Crisis (published in 1978) started life in 1973 as a short pamphlet, 20 Years , analyzing the media coverage of a series of incidents of street crime, in which the image of black youth and the new terminology of “mugging” gradually became melded together in public consciousness. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 769

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The mechanism — media moral panic attaching a crime word to a racialized image to legitimate authoritarian state response — is the kind of manufactured moral panic that my sacrifice and modesty pieces analyze structurally.
• XREF: Connects to Stuart Hall’s own moral-panic theory lineage from the Birmingham school, and to general frameworks about media constructing public consciousness of deviance. — connects to: Images of black criminality anchored the emerging authoritarian populism of British politics — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 32; Media hyping of a dangerous world increases authoritarianism in the public — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3834; Media coverage and elite attention prevented anti-black attitudes from staying abstract and dormant — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3427 (+3 more)
• SEED: The trajectory from a 20-page pamphlet to a foundational volume shows how a media-analysis observation can be expanded into social-theory — a model for turning a blog post into a book.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Images of black criminality anchored the emerging authoritarian populism of British politics — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 32; Media hyping of a dangerous world increases authoritarianism in the public — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3834; Media coverage and elite attention prevented anti-black attitudes from staying abstract and dormant — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3427 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Images of black criminality anchored the emerging authoritarian populism of British politics #corroborates (0.98) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 32
• The figure of the black mugger condensed anxieties into authoritarian populism #expands (0.97)