Title The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America, with a new preface / Khalil Gibran Muhammad.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2019]

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Edition	First Harvard University Press paperback edition
Description	xxx, 380 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Note	Originally published in 2010.
	"Preface 2019": Pages xi-xxx.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-367) and index.
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.
Awards	Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize.
	A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year.
Summary	Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
Subject	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 -- Criminology.
	African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00799632
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Crime and race. (OCoLC)fst00883028
	Discrimination in criminal justice administration. (OCoLC)fst00895034
	Hate crimes. (OCoLC)fst00951873
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Racism -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01086627
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America
ISBN	9780674238145 (paperback)
	0674238141 (paperback)

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