HUP author Khalil Gibran Muhammad speaks to a standing-room-only crowd at Harlem’s Hue-Man Bookstore on Saturday, March 6th. Muhammad’s book The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America explores "the racial data revolution"of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, showing how early social scientists linked the idea of blackness to criminality in the urban North, creating the paradoxical truism that "whites commit crimes, but black males are criminals."
||| Listen to the author on WBAI’s "Talkback!" with Hugh Hamilton.