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OverviewLynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. 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 of opportunity 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. In the heyday of “separate but equal,” what else but pathology could explain black failure in the “land of opportunity”? The idea of black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African Americans’ own ideas about race and crime. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Khalil Gibran MuhammadPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.445kg ISBN: 9780674062115ISBN 10: 0674062116 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 30 November 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of Contents* List of Illustrations * Introduction: The Mismeasure of Crime * Saving the Nation: The Racial Data Revolution and the Negro Problem * Writing Crime into Race: Racial Criminalization in the Age of Jim Crow * Incriminating Culture: The Limits of Racial Liberalism in the Progressive Era * Preventing Crime: White and Black Reformers in Philadelphia * Fighting Crime: Politics and Prejudice in the City of Brotherly Love * Policing Racism: Jim Crow Justice in the Urban North * Conclusion: The Conundrum of Criminality * Manuscript Sources * Notes * IndexReviews[A] brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.--Darryl Pinckney New York Review of Books (05/24/2012) Author InformationKhalil Gibran Muhammad is Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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