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The Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra called it a book that repeatedly explains how the stereotype of Black people as criminals has shaped American policy.

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The last book is a book called Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad. It shows how the stereotype of blacks as criminals has driven policy for decades.

— Episode: Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Ha...

Episode: Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answ...

Ezra called it a book that repeatedly explains how the stereotype of Black people as criminals has shaped American policy.

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The last book is a book called Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad. It shows how the stereotype of blacks as criminals has driven policy for decades.

We Can Do Hard Things

This book was referenced to explain how European immigrant groups gradually integrated into the umbrella of 'whiteness' over generations by forming political power and protection, often involving anti-miscegenation laws to maintain racial distinction.

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If you read The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Muhammad, he talks about how each European immigrant group took a generation or two to be pulled into the umbrella that is whiteness, right?

— Episode: HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PA...

Episode: HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUN...

This book was referenced to explain how European immigrant groups gradually integrated into the umbrella of 'whiteness' over generations by forming political power and protection, often involving anti-miscegenation laws to maintain racial distinction.

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If you read The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Muhammad, he talks about how each European immigrant group took a generation or two to be pulled into the umbrella that is whiteness, right?

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