ABSTRACT In late 1964, NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins became the first African American newspaper columnist syndicated widely in the white, mainstream press. This study looks at how Wilkins used his new journalistic platform to engage in the emerging conservative discourse over law and order. Wilkins tried to combat the pervasive stereotype of the violent black criminal, but as his column spread to more newspapers and his opinions reached deeper into the white mainstream, his efforts backfired. This research argues that his harsh denunciations of black criminality, delivered under the imprimatur of the NAACP, served to legitimize the stereotype, granting it greater authority in the national public sphere. Despite Wilkins’s prominence, his journalism has received little attention in studies of the civil rights movement and the political upheaval of the 1960s.

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罗伊·威尔金斯的新闻学与法治修辞学的兴起，1964-1968年

摘要1964年末，NAACP执行董事罗伊·威尔金斯（Roy Wilkins）成为第一位在白人主流媒体中广泛参与的非裔美国报纸专栏作家。这项研究着眼于威尔金斯如何利用他的新新闻平台从事有关法律和秩序的新兴保守派言论。威尔金斯（Wilkins）试图与暴力黑人罪犯的普遍刻板印象作斗争，但随着他的专栏扩大到更多报纸，他的观点深入白人主流，他的努力适得其反。这项研究认为，在全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）的大肆抨击下，他对黑人犯罪的严厉谴责使这种刻板印象合法化，使其在国家公共领域具有更大的权威。尽管威尔金斯很突出，