Presumed criminal : black youth and the justice system in postwar New York /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Suddler, Carl (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Juvenile delinquency > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Youth and violence > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. African American youth > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century. Discrimination in criminal justice administration > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction. "The way I see it": reframing black youth and racial injustice
"The child is never basically bad": creating crime through prevention
"Margie's day": youth, race, and uprisings in wartime Harlem
"Every generation has had the habit of going to the devil": constructions of a postwar delinquent
"Beware of the cat on the corner": deconstructing a cycle of outrage
"In all our Harlems": policing black youths through the war on crime
Afterword. "Without a wrinkle in today": an ode to young forever.