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Paperback Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York Book

ISBN: 146965573X

ISBN13: 9781469655734

Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York

(Part of the Justice, Power, and Politics Series)

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Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, by focusing on what their actions and behaviors represented to them. He...

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