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The Condemnation of Blackness

Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
  • Khalil Gibran Muhammad
2010
Harvard University Press

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  • Black man holding a protest sign that says "you may be next!"; cover image of book The Condemnation of Blackness.
    Book Review

    Lying with Numbers

    How statistics were used in the urban North to condemn Blackness as inherently criminal.
    by Mary F. Corey via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 29, 2021
  • White state militia man with rifle confronting a Black man in a U.S. military uniform, while others look on.
    Q&A

    How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities

    "The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.
    by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Anna North via Vox on June 6, 2020

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Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.

Who Shall and Shall Not Have a Place in the World?

Can the racialist and eugenicist roots of statistics be cordoned off from “proper” science?
by Lily Hu via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 13, 2025
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