This book examines the media's role in "performing" the Stephen Lawrence case over the ten-year period since Lawrence's murder.

To understand this, we need to attend to the rhetoric of journalism, the dynamics and contingencies within both politics and narrative, and the strategic interventions of involved interests and identities. The author provides new insights into how and why the media report and, occasionally, "perform" issues of "race" in ways that can unleash moral forces for social change. Includes many newspaper images from the British press; a list of racially motivated murders from 1970 to 2003; a detailed chronology of the Stephen Lawrence case; and the Macpherson report's recommendations and social reforms.

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Thesis Events
Theory
Mapping
Breach
Crisis
Redress
Reintegration/Schism
Ebbing/Revivification
Conclusion
Postscript
Appendix 1: Racially Motivated Murders 1970-2003
Appendix 2: Chronology of Stephen Lawrence Case
Appendix 3: Average Net Circulation of UK Newspapers 1993-2003
Appendix 4: Macpherson Recommendations and Social Reforms
References.