The Condemnation of Blackness : : Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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