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Author:

Suddler, Carl, author.

Title:

Presumed criminal : Black youth and the justice system in postwar New York / Carl Suddler.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

1900-1999
Juvenile delinquency--New York--New York--History--20th century.
African American youth--New York--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
Youth and violence--New York--New York--History--20th century.
African Americans--New York--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--New York--New York--History--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Juvenile delinquency.
Race relations.
Youth and violence.
New York (N.Y.)--History--History--20th century.
New York (State)--New York.
History.

Notes:

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."

ISBN:

1479847623
9781479847624

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1053192463

LCCN:

2018042634

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)