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The criminalization of black children race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago's juvenile justice system, 1899-1945

Title
  1. The criminalization of black children [electronic resource] : race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago's juvenile justice system, 1899-1945 / Tera Eva Agyepong.
Published by
  1. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Author
  1. Agyepong, Tera Eva.

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Description
  1. 1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
  1. "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"--
Series statement
  1. Justice, power, and politics
Uniform title
  1. Criminalization of black children (Online)
  2. Justice, power, and politics.
Alternative title
  1. Criminalization of black children (Online)
Subject
  1. African American juvenile delinquents > Illinois
  2. African Americans > Illinois > Social conditions > 20th century
  3. Juvenile justice, Administration of > Illinois > Chicago
Contents
  1. Contingent childhood: black children and the making of juvenile justice -- Race-ing innocence: the emergence of juvenile justice and the making of black delinquency -- Boundaries of innocence: race, the emergence of Cook County juvenile court, and punitive transitions -- Constructing a black female delinquent: race, gender, and the criminalization of African American girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva -- Flight, fright, and freedom: delinquency and the construction of black masculinity at the Training School for Boys at St. Charles.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Author
  1. Agyepong, Tera Eva.
Title
  1. The criminalization of black children [electronic resource] : race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago's juvenile justice system, 1899-1945 / Tera Eva Agyepong.
Imprint
  1. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series
  1. Justice, power, and politics
  2. Justice, power, and politics.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
  1. Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
  1. Available from home with a valid library card
  2. Available onsite at NYPL
LCCN
  1. 2017033417
ISBN
  1. 9781469638652 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 9781469636443 (pbk : alk. paper)
  3. 9781469638669 (ebook)
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