The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America
Title:
The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America
Author:
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972-
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
ix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
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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ISBN:
9780674035973
9780674062115
Format :
Book
