Uncontrollable Blackness (eBook)

African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York

Douglas J. Flowe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
332 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5574-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Early 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 narrates the stories of men who sought profits in underground markets, protected themselves when law enforcement failed to do so, and exerted control over public, commercial, and domestic spaces through force in a city that denied their claims to citizenship and manhood. Flowe furthermore traces how the features of urban Jim Crow and the efforts of civic and progressive leaders to restrict their autonomy ultimately produced the circumstances under which illegality became a form of resistance. Drawing from voluminous prison and arrest records, trial transcripts, personal letters and documents, and investigative reports, Flowe opens up new ways of understanding the black struggle for freedom in the twentieth century. By uncovering the relationship between the fight for civil rights, black constructions of masculinity, and lawlessness, he offers a stirring account of how working-class black men employed extralegal methods to address racial injustice.

Autor

Douglas J. Flowe is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 9 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: African American men • antimodernism • Auburn Correctional Facility • Barron Wilkins • Bedford Hills Reformatory • black badman • Black Marriage • Black Masculinity • black self-defense • black tough • Booker T. Washington • Bronx • Brooklyn • carceral state • Casper Holstein • class conflict • Clinton Prison • Committee of Fourteen • constructions of manhood • Criminality • criminalization • criminogenic • Domestic Abuse • domestic authority • family separation • Fred Moore • Gambling • Great Migration • Housing Segregation • Incarceration • interracial sex • Jack Johnson • James Marshall • Job discrimination • Leisure • Leroy Wilkins • Little Africa • lynching • Manhattan • Mann Act • Maude Miner • Minettas • Murder • Negro Bohemia • New Negro • New York City • parole • Patriarchy • Police brutality • Prison Reform • Probation • Progressive Era • Prostitution • Queens • racial destiny • racial violence • Rebellion • Rehabilitation • resistance • Robbery • Rockefeller Grand Jury • saloons • San Juan Hill • Segregation • Sex Work • Sing Sing Prison • Slumming • Surveillance • tammany hall • tenderloin • the crucible of black criminality • Theft • unfair trial • Urban reform • Urban space • vice crusades • Victoria Earle Matthews • W.E.B. Du Bois • white manhood • White Rose Mission • white slavery • White slave traffic act • William • William Banks • William McAdoo
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-5574-8 / 1469655748
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-5574-1 / 9781469655741