Unkontrollierbares Schwarzsein: Afroamerikanische Männer und Kriminalität im New York der Jim-Crow-Gesetze

Author/Contributor(s):	Flowe, Douglas J
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	06/22/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In the wake of emancipation, black men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, marginalization, and racial violence. In response, some of those men opted to participate in underground economies, to protect themselves when law enforcement failed to do so, and to exert control over public space through force. Douglas J. Flowe traces how public racial violence, segregation in housing and leisure, and criminal stigmatization in popular culture and media fostered a sense of distress, isolation, and nihilism that made crime and violence seem like viable recourses in the face of white supremacy. He examines self-defense against state violence, crimes committed within black social spaces and intimate relationships, and the contest of white and black masculinity"--