The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface - 2nd edition (Paperback)

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by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Description

Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize

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How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime?

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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.

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"The role of social-science research in creating the myth of black criminality is the focus of this seminal work...[It] shows how progressive reformers, academics, and policy-makers subscribed to a 'statistical discourse' about black crime...one that shifted blame onto Black people for their disproportionate incarceration and continues to sustain gross racial disparities in American law enforcement and criminal justice."

About the Author

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He was formerly Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world's leading library and archive of global Black History.

Product Details

Category: History, Sociology, Criminology

Language: English

Format/Binding: Paperback

Book Condition: New

ISBN-10: 0674238141

ISBN-13: 978-0674238145

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Date Published: July 22, 2019

Pages: 416

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