Tera Eva Agyepong
The Criminalization of Black Children
Tera Eva Agyepong · 2018
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"In this book, Tera Agyepong explores the vital role children played in the construction of ideas of criminality in early twentieth century Chicago. For African American children, youthfulness--far from being a marker of purity or innocence--was a factor in subjecting them to particular institutional, social, and economic vulnerabilities at the hands of the juvenile justice system. At a moment when blackness was becoming a marker of criminality, their race overrode the potential protections their status as children could have provided them"--
Book details
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 196
- ISBN
- 9781469636443
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