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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Update: 2016-03-02

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Kyung Park reads from The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, by Khalili Gibran Muhammad, published by Harvard University Press.

"...Between 1890 and 1940, how and why did racial crime statistics become...a subject of dialogue and debate about blacks' fitness for modern life?"

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Kyung Park