Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York identity 2022 2022 The Children’s Book

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Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York identity 2022 2022 The Children’s BookEarly twentieth century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, by focusing on what their actions and behaviors represented to them. He