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The condemnation of blackness race, crime, and the making of modern urban America
Title
The condemnation of blackness [electronic resource] : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America / Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
ISBN
9780674240919
067424091X
9780674035973
0674035976
9780674062115
0674062116
9780674244337
0674244338
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright Notice Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource ( ix, 380 pages:) : illustrations, portraits.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-367) and index.
Contents
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
Conclusion: The conundrum of criminality.
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