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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and...
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year
--Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books How did we come to think of race as synonymous...
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and...
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 book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and...
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize " A] brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us." Lynch mobs, chain...
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year
--Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and...
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and...
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 crime in American society. Following the 1890 census-the first to measure the generation...
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and...
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 crime in American society. Following the 1890 census-the first to measure the generation...
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