The recurring, horrific deaths of minority residents at the hands of police officers and vigilantes have led social movements and international protests to amplify the charge that whereas the loss of White lives is seen as tragic, the loss of Black and Hispanic lives is treated as normal, acceptable, and even inevitable. Building on and advancing theories of “color-blind racism,” the authors examine the process by which the news media uphold and reify the devaluation of Black and Hispanic lives through ostensibly race-neutral language, story lines, and cultural narratives. Drawing on an original data set containing all news articles (n = 2,245) written about every homicide victim (n = 762) in Chicago, Illinois, during 2016, the authors use multilevel models to assess the extent to which victims’ race and neighborhood racial composition are associated with the level of attention, or “newsworthiness,” devoted to their deaths. Using two measures of newsworthiness—the amount of coverage and recognition of “complex personhood”—the authors find that victims killed in predominantly Black neighborhoods receive less news coverage than those killed in non-Hispanic White neighborhoods. Those killed in predominantly Black or Hispanic neighborhoods are also less likely to be discussed as multifaceted, complex people. Our analyses underscore the importance of place, especially the racialization of place, in determining which victims are treated as newsworthy. These findings carry important implications for understanding and addressing color-blind racism, news-reporting practices, and territorial stigma in the reproduction of racist ideologies.

少数族裔居民在警官和治安人员手中屡屡发生的可怕死亡事件导致社会运动和国际抗议活动加剧了这样的指控：尽管白人生命的丧失被视为悲剧，黑人和西班牙裔生命的丧失被视为正常， ，可以接受，甚至是不可避免的。在“色盲种族主义”理论的基础上和不断发展的基础上，作者研究了新闻媒体通过表面上种族中立的语言，故事情节和文化叙事来坚持和纠正黑人和西班牙裔人贬值的过程。借鉴包含所有新闻文章的原始数据集（ñ写每一个凶杀案受害者= 2245）（ñ= 762）在2016年伊利诺伊州芝加哥市，作者使用多层次模型评估了受害者的种族和邻里种族构成与对死亡的关注程度或“新闻价值”相关的程度。通过使用两种新闻价值衡量方法-报道的数量和对“复杂人格”的认识，作者发现，主要在黑人社区被杀的受害者比在非西班牙裔白人社区被杀的受害者获得更少的新闻报道。在以黑人或西班牙裔为主的社区中被杀的人，也不太可能被视为多面的，复杂的人。我们的分析强调了地点（特别是地点的种族化）在确定哪些受害者被视为新闻价值方面的重要性。