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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface

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


“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.”
—Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books

How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society and ou...