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The condemnation of blackness : Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America / Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.-$tConclusion: The conundrum of criminality.
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- ISBN: 9780674238145
- ISBN: 0674238141
- Physical Description: xxx, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2019]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "With a new preface." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-367) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The mismeasure of crime -- Saving the nation : the racial data revolution and the negro problem -- Writing crime into race : racial criminalization and the dawn of Jim Crow -- Incriminating culture : the limits of racial liberalism in the progressive era -- Preventing crime : white and black reformers in Philadelphia -- Fighting crime : politics and prejudice in the city of brotherly love -- Policing racism : Jim Crow justice in the urban north - |
| Awards Note: | Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize. |
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