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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:146965573X
ISBN13:9781469655734
Release Date:June 2020
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:332 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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