The Condemnation of Blackness : : Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface / / Khalil Gibran Muhammad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Muhammad, Khalil Gibran,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Preface 2019 --; Introduction: The Mismeasure of Crime --; 1 Saving the Nation: The Racial Data Revolution and the Negro Problem --; 2 Writing Crime into Race: Racial Criminalization and the Dawn of Jim Crow --; 3 Incriminating Culture: The Limits of Racial Liberalism in the Progressive Era --; 4 Preventing Crime: White and Black Reformers in Philadelphia --; 5 Fighting Crime: Politics and Prejudice in the City of Brotherly Love --; 6 Policing Racism: Jim Crow Justice in the Urban North --; Conclusion: The Conundrum of Criminality --; Manuscript Sources --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674240919; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674240919
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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.