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

Author:
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran
Year:
2019

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.