The presumption : race and injustice in the United States /

The presumption : race and injustice in the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jones, D. Marvin, author.
Imprint:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. ©2024
Description:	vii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Social conditions. Racism against Black people -- United States. Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States. Presumption of innocence -- United States. African Americans -- Social conditions Discrimination in criminal justice administration Presumption of innocence Race relations Racial profiling in law enforcement Racism against Black people United States -- Race relations. United States
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13498201

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Varying Form of Title:	Race and injustice in the United States
ISBN:	9781440867712 1440867712 9798216172222 9781440867729 9798216172215
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems"-- "Why are Black people stopped, arrested, and shot by police at such a high rate? Why are they portrayed in the media as gangbangers and urban thugs? D. Marvin Jones writes that the problem of race lies in the way Blackness has been inextricably knotted together in our culture with presumptions. In the era of segregation this was a presumption of inferiority, but in our era, it is primarily a presumption of dangerousness or criminality. In chapters on slavery, urban spaces, the drug war, media portrayals, and white spaces, he shows how the presumption of guilt continues to shape the treatment of Black people in the United States. Arguing that this presumption is not simply a matter of hate on the part of individuals, but instead a social process linked to a widely shared racial ideology, The Presumption points out the continuation of racial caste in the U.S. as a crisis for democracy and provides a blueprint for a kind of second Reconstruction"--
Other form:	Online version: Jones, D. Marvin. Presumption New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9781440867729

Table of Contents:

Crimes of identity : the slaveship, the plantation, and the presumption
"This Is a White Man's country!" : the eviction of Ossian Sweet
Makes me wanna holler : the making of the second ghetto
The new Black codes : the presumption and the drug war
Strangers paradise : the presumption in White spaces
From Blackface to Sidney Poitier : the presumption on our screens (Part I)
From Blaxploitation to Hood films : the presumption on our screens (Part II).