![]() However, while the statistics themselves might have been neutral, the specific selection, interpretation, and subsequent conclusions certainly were not. This research became widely accepted because it appeared to be based on neutral and unbiased statistics. His book examines decades of effort by researchers and social scientists who influenced popular thinking to conclude that the troubles associated with African Americans – poverty, crime, reduced lifespan, were the result of the inherent inferiority of Blacks to their White counterparts. The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a scrupulously researched book that documents statistics, “scholarly papers”, and discourse through American history to try and answer the question: How did we come to think of race, and specifically African Americans, as synonymous with crime? ![]() The Condemnation of Blackness and The Color of Law. ![]()
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