The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Book by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
"The Idea of Black Criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America. Khalil Gibran Muhammad chronicles how, when, and why modern notions of black people as an exceptionally dangerous race of criminals first emerged. ... Google Books
Originally published: February 15, 2010
Author: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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This book tells an unsettling coming-of-age story. It is a biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America.
The Condemnation of Blackness is the most thorough historical account of the enduring link between blackness and criminality in the making of modern urban ...
Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and ...
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Jul 22, 2019 · A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of ...
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 ...