The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

416 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Winner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeA 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 How did we come to think of race as synonymous with...

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