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Blacks, Italians, and the Progressive interest in New York City crime, 1900--1930.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Blacks, Italians, and the Progressive interest in New York City crime, 1900--1930./
Author:	Sims, Kimberly Joyce.
Description:	245 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	History, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3217880
ISBN:	9780542693960

Blacks, Italians, and the Progressive interest in New York City crime, 1900--1930.
Sims, Kimberly Joyce.

Blacks, Italians, and the Progressive interest in New York City crime, 1900--1930. - 245 p.

Adviser: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2006.

This dissertation explores the ways in which Progressive reformers shaped the discourse on race and crime in the urban North during the early twentieth century. By means of a comparative study of how African-American and southern Italian immigrant criminal behavior in New York City was described, reacted to, and explained between 1900 and 1930, it also traces the impact this discourse had on some of the institutions and individuals Progressives sought to reform.

ISBN: 9780542693960Subjects--Topical Terms:

516334
History, Modern.

Blacks, Italians, and the Progressive interest in New York City crime, 1900--1930.
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520 $a Although they were by no means the only races that caused concern among middle-class men and women due to their perceived criminality, blacks and Italians make particularly compelling subjects for this study for several reasons. Modern conceptualizations of black and southern Italian criminality had certain similarities and both emerged in the context of late-nineteenth-century debates over national unification. This led to the two groups being frequently compared and contrasted with one another by interested observers. Suspicion of inherent criminality played an important role in debates over both races' desirability as citizens, but with significantly different results.
520 $a This study has three major components: It uses scholarly writing about blacks and southern Italian immigrants to trace the creation of a transnational discourse linking race and criminality in the late-nineteenth century, discusses how this discourse influenced the massive expansion and re-organization of the New York City police and shaped criminal law reform in the first thirty years of the twentieth century, and provides a social history of blacks and Italians focused specifically on criminal justice issues.
520 $a Between 1900 and 1930, a widening gulf developed between Progressive reformers' perceptions of crime in black and Italian neighborhoods. Due in part to the privileges European immigrants enjoyed as they were embraced under the social construct of whiteness, Italian criminality was generally understood to be a relatively intangible threat to the body politic, a subversive but highly organized force that could be effectively controlled by the adoption of new laws or policing strategies, and black crime, a matter of concern primarily when whites were its victims, was perceived as an unpredictable and unseemly constant, rooted in the essential primitivism of African-Americans.
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