The Wire

Race, Class, and Genre

By: Liam Kennedy (Editor), Stephen Shapiro (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 July 2012

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The television series "The Wire," which ended a six-year run on HBO in 2008, has been called the best dramatic series ever created. Set in Baltimore, each season's shows provided an uncommon perspective on the American city from within its institutions, including the police and the drug trade, the docks, city government, the school system, and the newspaper business. The show's unflinching exploration of contemporary urban problems and its empathetic portrayal of individuals across racial and socioeconomic boundaries make it a show that is all about race and class in America.

The contributors to this volume offer a range of astute critical responses to this television phenomenon. More consistently than any other crime show of its generation, "The Wire" challenges viewers' perceptions of the racialization of urban space and the media conventions that support this. "The Wire" reminds us of just how remarkably restricted the grammar of race is on American television and related media, and of the normative codings of race---as identity, as landscape---across urban narratives, from documentary to entertainment media.

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