The Condemnation of Blackness : : Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
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Introduction: The mismeasure of crime -- Saving the nation : the racial data revolution and the negro problem -- Writing crime into race : racial criminalization in the age 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 : in Jim Crow justice in the urban north -- Conclusion: The conundrum of criminality.
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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 380 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780674035973 (alk. paper)
0674035976 (alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Crime and race.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
United States -- Race relations.