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The criminalization of Black children : race, gender, and delinquency in Chicago’s juvenile justice system, 1899–1945 / Tera Eva Agyepong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agyepong, Tera Eva.
- Series:
- Justice, power, and politics.
- Justice, power, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American juvenile delinquents--Illinois.
- African American juvenile delinquents.
- African Americans--Illinois--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--Illinois--Chicago.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908533-4-9
- 979-88-908533-5-6
- 1-4696-3866-5
- 1-4696-3867-3
- OCLC:
- 1028937546
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