Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York identity DO NOT MARRY A SINGLE

DO NOT MARRY A SINGLE PARENT

abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison

the boy discovers the rich heritage of those that have gone before him and learns how he embodies that same greatness

As their lives intertwine—in bustling markets and underground clubs

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Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York identity DO NOT MARRY A SINGLEEarly 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