The Condemnation of Blackness

Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface

Ranked #45 in Criminal Law

Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year

How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? The Condemnation of Blackness is a biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America. It reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society and our sense of self. Black crime statistics have shaped debates about everything from public education to policing to presidential elections, fueling racism and justifying inequality, in stark contrast to the...
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