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

ISBN: 0674238141

ISBN13: 9780674238145

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

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How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society and our sense of self. Black crime statistics have shaped debates about everything from public education to policing to presidential elections, fueling...

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