Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-223) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: "The way I see it" : reframing black youth and racial injustice -- "The child is never basically bad" : creating crime through prevention -- "Margie's day" : youth, race, and uprisings in wartime Harlem -- "Every generation has had the habit of going to the devil" : constructions of a postwar delinquent -- "Beware of the cat on the corner" : deconstructing a cycle of outrage -- "In all our Harlems" : policing black youths through the war on crime -- Afterword: "Without a wrinkle in today" : an ode to "Young forever."
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