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 Prize A Moyers & Company Best Book of the YearHow did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? The Condemnation of Blackness is a biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urb...

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challenging 61%
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