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The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America, with a new preface
Title
The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America, with a new preface / Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
ISBN
9780674238145
0674238141
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xxx, 380 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes
Originally published in 2010.
"Preface 2019": Pages xi-xxx.
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize.
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year.
Variant and related titles
Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2019
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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