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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 44 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Mirron Willis. |
| Summary |
Lynch 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Crime and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Hate crimes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Willis, Mirron.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America |
| ISBN |
9781541429697 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541429699 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11931806 |
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