The Wilding Of America Book Review
Gaywonn Tavares
Cont. Dev. in Criminal Justice
The Wilding of America Book Review
Professor Lake
24 March 2012
The Wilding of America is Wilding by Charles Derber is an interesting novel into the wretched nature of American society, where the different form of wilding have become normalized. Wilding also exists outside of the American society. Derber begins to explain White Wilding vs. Black Wilding, by giving the reader an example of the Central Park Jogger story. The Central Park Jogger, which occurred on April 19, 1989, is now considered to be an infamous story.
The story is of a white middle class woman, who was attacked by six black teenagers between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, while jogging in Central Park at night. The teenagers who were allegedly involved displayed signs of happiness, arrogance, and heartless feelings towards the incident; it is because of this that the teenagers received the maximum punishment towards their crimes, however it wasn’t until after a confession to that crime from Matias Reyes, in jail for murder and rape, the five teenage boys’ conviction was overturned. DNA was able to prove the guilt of Reyes and the innocence of the five convicted young black men. In this example of the “Central Park Jogger”, there was clearly “Black Wilding”. It was black teenagers who were incarcerated for the crime, but the sigma of “black wilding” describes how people are so afraid of the stereotypical black male committing a crime against them that they would do anything in order to keep society safe. In this case, they convicted 5 innocent black males, without the proper evidence. The prosecutors and all involved in convicting these 5 males were wilding when they pursued a conviction without complete and proper evidence.
Colin Turnbull explains his experience with the IK people, or sometimes referred to as the Mountain People. They are described as loveless people with food and money as their only concern in life. They are also
Cont. Dev. in Criminal Justice
The Wilding of America Book Review
Professor Lake
24 March 2012
The Wilding of America is Wilding by Charles Derber is an interesting novel into the wretched nature of American society, where the different form of wilding have become normalized. Wilding also exists outside of the American society. Derber begins to explain White Wilding vs. Black Wilding, by giving the reader an example of the Central Park Jogger story. The Central Park Jogger, which occurred on April 19, 1989, is now considered to be an infamous story.
The story is of a white middle class woman, who was attacked by six black teenagers between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, while jogging in Central Park at night. The teenagers who were allegedly involved displayed signs of happiness, arrogance, and heartless feelings towards the incident; it is because of this that the teenagers received the maximum punishment towards their crimes, however it wasn’t until after a confession to that crime from Matias Reyes, in jail for murder and rape, the five teenage boys’ conviction was overturned. DNA was able to prove the guilt of Reyes and the innocence of the five convicted young black men. In this example of the “Central Park Jogger”, there was clearly “Black Wilding”. It was black teenagers who were incarcerated for the crime, but the sigma of “black wilding” describes how people are so afraid of the stereotypical black male committing a crime against them that they would do anything in order to keep society safe. In this case, they convicted 5 innocent black males, without the proper evidence. The prosecutors and all involved in convicting these 5 males were wilding when they pursued a conviction without complete and proper evidence.
Colin Turnbull explains his experience with the IK people, or sometimes referred to as the Mountain People. They are described as loveless people with food and money as their only concern in life. They are also
Bibliography: Derber, Charles. (2011) The Wilding of America: Worth Publishers, New York, N.Y.