Condemnation of Blackness - Race, Crime, Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface

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 fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.

About the author

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He was formerly Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global Black history.

Product details

• Authors: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780674238145
• ISBN: 978-0-674-23814-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; RELIGION / General, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs