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The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Crime and race > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Table of 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.