Ebook: The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America
Author: Muhammad Khalil Gibran
- Tags: Crime and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century, African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century, African Americans -- Legal status laws etc -- History -- 20th century, Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Hate crimes -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century, United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Crim
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- City: Cambridge, Mass., Schwarze., United States, USA., United States.
- Language: English
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"The Idea of Black Criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America. Khalil Gibran Muhammad chronicles how, when, and why modern notions of black people as an exceptionally dangerous race of criminals first emerged. Well known are the lynch mobs and racist criminal justice practices in the South that stoked white fears of black crime and shaped the contours of the New South. In this illuminating book, Read more...