The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Book Overview

Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year

" A] brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us."
--Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674062116
• ISBN13: 9780674062115
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"