Katheryn Russell-Brown is Levin, Mabie, and Levin Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. She is the author of Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime, and African Americans and Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires, and has also written three children’s books, including She Was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm.
Russell-Brown’s new edition of The Color of Crime is essential
reading for students and scholars of race, crime, and justice. It
not only provides excellent overviews of concepts and issues for
those who are newer to investigating this huge topic, but also
presents stimulating material for those more steeped in
conversations about race and crime. Be prepared to be wowed by her
thoughtful and provocative final chapter–the 'Parable of the Soul
Savers.'
*Lauren J. Krivo, co-author of Divergent Social Worlds:
Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide*
Katheryn Russell-Brownprovides plenty of food for thought, new
information, and intriguing perspectives in the portrayal of race,
crime and justice in the United States. This updated edition of The
Color of Crime will be a valuable resource for a variety of
audiences, providing a broader and more thorough treatment of race
and crime than many other works, including attention to timely
issues like racial hoaxes, White crime, and more.
*Ruth D. Peterson, co-author of Divergent Social Worlds:
Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide*
This book is a classic. When The Color of Crime was first released,
Russell-Brown shook the worlds of criminology, penology, and a
then-burgeoning sociology of punishment by centering anti-black
images in the media in her study of what we would later understand
as the rise of mass incarceration. Updated with chapters and case
studies that account for new kinds of media and racism, as well as
our broader understanding of the carceral state’s reach, this
interdisciplinary, accessible, and ambitious work has proven, once
again, that Russell-Brown’s trenchant analysis is indispensable for
serious students of race and crime control in the United States and
beyond.
*Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment,
and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration*
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