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.
ISBN:
9780674054325
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (393 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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