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Subject(s)

• Crime and race—United States [Browse]
• African Americans—Social conditions [Browse]
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The mismeasure of crime -- Saving the nation : the racial data revolution and the negro problem -- Writing crime into race : racial criminalization and the dawn of Jim Crow -- Incriminating culture : the limits of racial liberalism in the progressive era -- Preventing crime : white and black reformers in Philadelphia -- Fighting crime : politics and prejudice in the city of brotherly love -- Policing racism : Jim Crow justice in the urban north -- Conclusion: The conundrum of criminality.

ISBN

• 9780674035973 (alk. paper)
• 0674035976 (alk. paper)
• 9780674062115 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 0674062116 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2009014930

OCLC

318970547

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