TY - GEN T1 - The condemnation of blackness : race, crime, and the making of modern urban America, with a new preface A1 - Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972- LA - English PP - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1104227611 AB - "The Idea of Black Criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America. Khalil Gibran Muhammad chronicles how, when, and why modern notions of black people as an exceptionally dangerous race of criminals first emerged. Well known are the lynch mobs and racist criminal justice practices in the South that stoked white fears of black crime and shaped the contours of the New South. In this illuminating book, Muhammad shifts our attention to the urban North as a crucial but overlooked site for the production and dissemination of those ideas and practices. Following the 1890 census - the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery - crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic references to America as the promised land were woven into a cautionary tale about the exceptional threat black people posed to modern urban society. Excessive arrest rates and overrepresentation in northern prisons were seen by many whites - liberals and conservatives, northerners and southerners - as indisputable proof of blacks' inferiority. What else but pathology could explain black failure in the land of opportunity? Social scientists and reformers used crime statistics to mask and excuse anti-black racism, violence, and discrimination across the nation, especially in the urban North. The Condemnation of Blackness is the most thorough historical account of the enduring link between blackness and criminality in the making of modern urban America. It is a startling examination of why the echoes of America's Jim Crow past continue to resonate in 'color-blind' crime rhetoric today"--Jacket AB - 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. OP - 380 NO - Originally published in 2010. NO - "Preface 2019": Pages xi-xxx CN - HV6197.U6 M85 2019eb SN - 9780674240919 SN - 067424091X SN - 9780674244337 SN - 0674244338 SN - 9780674244320 SN - 067424432X SN - 9780674238145 SN - 0674238141 SN - 9780674035973 KW - Crime and race : United States : History : 20th century. KW - African Americans : Social conditions : History : 20th century. KW - African Americans : Legal status, laws, etc. : History : 20th century. KW - Racism in criminology : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Racism in criminal justice administration : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Discrimination in criminal justice administration : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Hate crimes : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Racism against Black people : Political aspects : United States : History : 20th century. KW - United States : Race relations : History : 20th century. KW - Racism : Political aspects : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Racism in criminal justice administration : History : 20th century. KW - Criminalité et race : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Noirs américains : Conditions sociales : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Crimes haineux : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Racisme : Aspect politique : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - États-Unis : Relations raciales : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Racisme en criminologie : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Racisme dans l'administration de la justice pénale : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Racisme à l'égard des personnes noires : Aspect politique : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Criminology. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : African American Studies. KW - African Americans : Legal status, laws, etc. KW - African Americans : Social conditions KW - Crime and race KW - Discrimination in criminal justice administration KW - Hate crimes KW - Race relations KW - Racism : Political aspects KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - History ER -