Race, crime, and the making of modern urban america, and its a book in which author khalil gibran muhammad has set out to expose the glue that binds. Race, crime, and the making of modern urban america, with a new preface 2nd ed. Race, crime, and the making of modern urban america harvard university press, 2019, khalil gibran muhammad details the. Race, crime, and the making of modern urban america by khalil gibran muhammad is a nonfiction book about the cultural ties that cause americans to associate blackness with criminality, despite the much higher rate of white criminals in this country. Race, crime, and the making of modern urban america, author khalil gibran muhammad works to answer a series of questions surrounding the statistical link between blackness and criminality 1, focusing on the core historical actors and the circumstances that were constructed to allow for the current reality. The condemnation of blackness race, crime, and the making of modern urban america, with a new preface paperback. Book description harvard university press 12011, 2011. He writes about how black identity is tied up in the idea of. Khalil gibran muhammad is author of the condemnation of blackness.
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By weaving together the histories of scientific racism, migration, immigrant and african american uplift ideologies, racial violence, and sociopolitical change in the cauldron of the urban north, this text. Muhammads book renders an incalculable service to civil rights scholarship by disrupting one of the nations most insidious, convenient, and resilient explanatory loops. Khalil gibran muhammads impor tant book, the condemnation of black ness. The condemnation of blackness summary supersummary. November 30, 2011 lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the jim crow south are well known. Race, crime, and the making of urban america, khalil gibran muhammad, an assistant professor of history at indiana university, tells an unsettling comingofage story about the idea of black criminality in modern america. The condemnation of blackness by kahlil gibran muhammad. The condemnation of blackness reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social. The power of the condemnation of blackness is in giving contemporary debatesabout trayvon martin, the black underclass, and the extraordinarily high rates of black contact with criminal justicea fuller historical context. The condemnation of blackness paperback chicago public.
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Condemnation of blackness is a study of race and crime, but the author also has a handle on progressive era ideology, urban politics, and that old phrenology race science stuff researching that must have gotten tiresome. It has nothing to do with blackness but how black people have been made the scapegoat for americas racist and class based society. Race, crime, and the making of modern urban america, with a new preface muhammad, khalil gibran on. His thesis, in my opinion, can be found on the first page of the introduction with muhammad stating that this book tells an unsettling comingofage story.