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This important book is a vital contribution to our understanding of the role of racism in American society.-- Aldon D. Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Muhammad's book renders an incalculable service to civil rights scholarship by disrupting one of the nation's most insidious, convenient, and resilient explanatory loops: whites commit crimes, but black males are criminals. With uncommon interpretive clarity and resourceful accumulation of data, the author disentangles crime as a fact of the urban experience from crime as a theory of race in American history. This is a mandatory read. -- David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author [A] brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us. -- New York Review of Books

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad is director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, and associate professor of history at Indiana University. Mirron Willis is a talented actor whose credits include theater, film, and television. His recordings include the Odyssey Honor award winner Elijah of Buxton by Paul Christopher Curtis; Sixty Feet, Sixty Inches by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, and Lonnie Wheeler; Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead; Invisible Life, Basketball Jones, and I Say A Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris. Mirron is the recipient of numerous Earphone Awards and has recorded many works by Walter Mosley and Orson Scott Card.

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