The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America, with a new preface
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
364.256/MUHAMMAD,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, [2019]
©2019
©2019
DESCRIPTION
xxx, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780674238145, 0674238141 :, 0674238141, 9780674238145
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