Jonathan Holloway continues his Yale lecture on race and media in late-1980s and 1990s American politics, part of the course American History: From Emancipation to the Present. He argues that after overt racial rhetoric became taboo, words like crime, drugs, and welfare became coded stand-ins for race in political discourse. He traces this through the Bush-Dukakis campaign and the Willie Horton ad, Bernhard Goetz's subway shooting, the Charles Stuart carjacking hoax, the Central Park jogger case, Jesse Helms's Angry Hands ad, the Rodney King beating and the Los Angeles unrest that followed the officers' acquittal, and the killing of Latasha Harlins by a Korean shopkeeper. The lecture closes with the Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill hearings, presented as the era's clearest collision of race, gender, and media spectacle in national politics.