Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Name: Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
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ISBN: 9780674062115

ISBN-10: 0674062116

ISBN-13: 9780674062115

Edition: 2010

Authors: Khalil Gibran Muhammad

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Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.



List of Illustrations


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


Manuscript Sources


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index