![]() ![]() Following the 1890 census, the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery, crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic references to America as the promised land of opportunity were woven into a cautionary tale about the exceptional threat black people posed to modern urban society. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. ![]() Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. Conclusion: The conundrum of criminality.Policing racism : Jim Crow justice in the urban north.Fighting crime : politics and prejudice in the city of brotherly love.Preventing crime : white and black reformers in Philadelphia.Incriminating culture : the limits of racial liberalism in the progressive era.Writing crime into race : racial criminalization and the dawn of Jim Crow.Saving the nation : the racial data revolution and the negro problem.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-367) and index Contents ![]()
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