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Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 380 $35.00 (ISBN 978-0-674-03597-3).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2011

Damon Freeman*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania

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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2011

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