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Author Flowe, Douglas J., author.

Title Uncontrollable blackness : African American men and criminality in Jim Crow New York / Douglas J. Flowe.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
text file
Series Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents No sunshine in the city : crime, control, and the crucible of public space -- Sex, blood, guns, and gambling : pleasure, profit, and peril in New York City's black saloons -- White women forced to live in negro dives : Roosevelt Sharp's abduction trial and the contested terrain of white women's bodies -- To let her know she did me wrong : illegality, domestic authority, and the politics of black intimacy -- Been here long enough : prison, parole, and the pursuit of a better life in black imagination.
Summary "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"--Publisher's description.
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Subject African American men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African American men.
New York (State) -- New York.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African American men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Crime and race -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Crime and race.
History.
Men -- Identity.
Men -- Identity.
Man-woman relationships -- Social aspects.
Man-woman relationships.
Social aspects.
African Americans -- Segregation -- New York (State) -- New York.
African Americans -- Segregation.
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History.
National Book Committee.
Race relations.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Men.
Other Form: Print version: Flowe, Douglas J. Uncontrollable Blackness. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020] 9781469655727 (DLC) 2019046698 (OCoLC)1119499956
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