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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Agyepong, Tera Eva
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| Publisher: |
University of North Carolina Press
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| Date: |
04/09/2018
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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"In this book, Tera Agyepong explores the vital role children played in the construction of ideas of criminality in early twentieth century Chicago. For African American children, youthfulness--far from being a marker of purity or innocence--was a factor in subjecting them to particular institutional, social, and economic vulnerabilities at the hands of the juvenile justice system. At a moment when blackness was becoming a marker of criminality, their race overrode the potential protections their status as children could have provided them"--
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