| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 380 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Originally published in 2010. |
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"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. |
| 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. |
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How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society and our sense of self. Black crime statistics have shaped debates about everything from public education to policing to presidential elections, fueling racism and justifying inequality. How was this statistical link between blackness and criminality initially forged? Why was the same link not made for whites? In the age of Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump, under the shadow of Ferguson and Baltimore, no questions could be more urgent.--Publisher website. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Awards |
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize |
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A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year |
| Subject |
Crime and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Hate crimes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Racism against Black people -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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| Added Title |
Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America |
| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0674238141 (paperback) |
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9780674238145 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
heb40196 hdl |
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