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OverviewIn the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet amidst an influx of new African American arrivals to the city during the Great Migration, notions of inherent childhood innocence and juvenile justice were circumscribed by race. In documenting how blackness became a marker of criminality that overrode the potential protections the status of """"child"""" could have bestowed, Tera Eva Agyepong shows the entanglements between race and the state's transition to a more punitive form of juvenile justice. This important study expands the narrative of racialized criminalization in America, revealing that these patterns became embedded in a justice system originally intended to protect children. In doing so, Agyepong also complicates our understanding of the nature of migration and what it meant to be black and living in Chicago in the early twentieth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tera Eva AgyepongPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press ISBN: 9781469638652ISBN 10: 1469638657 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 30 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsProvides a case study on race in Chicago's juvenile justice system throughout the first half of the twentieth century. . . . Highlights the particular vulnerabilities that young African Americans face in a legal system supposedly designed to protect children's innocence.--Journal of African American History Brings significant insights to the fields of juvenile justice, childhood studies, and African American history.--American Historical Review Provides a case study on race in Chicago's juvenile justice system throughout the first half of the twentieth century. . . . Highlights the particular vulnerabilities that young African Americans face in a legal system supposedly designed to protect children's innocence.--Journal of African American History Author InformationTera Eva Agyepong is assistant professor of history at DePaul University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |