Uncontrollable Blackness : African American men and criminality in Jim Crow New York /
In the wake of emancipation, black men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, marginalization and racial violence. In response, some of those men opted to participate in underground economies, to protect themselves when law enforcement failed to do so and to exert control...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Summary: | In the wake of emancipation, black men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, marginalization and racial violence. In response, some of those men opted to participate in underground economies, to protect themselves when law enforcement failed to do so and to exert control over public space through force. Douglas J. Flowe traces how public racial violence, segregation in housing and leisure and criminal stigmatization in popular culture and media fostered a sense of distress, isolation and nihilism that made crime and violence seem like viable recourses in the face of white supremacy. He examines self-defense against state violence, crimes committed within black social spaces and intimate relationships and the contest of white and black masculinity. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469655727 1469655721 9781469655734 146965573X |