Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York

by Douglas J Flowe and Douglas J. Flowe

Book Overview

Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, by focusing on what their actions and behaviors represented to them. He...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146965573X
• ISBN13: 9781469655734
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"