Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires

by Katheryn Russell-Brown

Book Overview

Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention
Americans fear crime, are rattled by race and avoid honest discussions of both. Anxiety, denial, miscommunication, and ignorance abound. Imaginary connections between minorities and crime become real, self-fulfilling prophecies and authentic links to race, class, gender and crime go unexplored. Katheryn Russell-Brown, author of the highly acclaimed The Color of Crime,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814775411
• ISBN13: 9780814775417
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"