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

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Book Overview

Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year

"A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us."
--Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674238141
• ISBN13: 9780674238145
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"