In the late nineteenth century, life became more stable and orderly
for most American city dwellers, but not for blacks. Roger Lane
offers a historical explanation for the rising levels of black
urban crime and family instability during this paradoxical era.
Philadelphia serves as test case because of the richness of the
data: DuBois's classic study, "The Philadelphia Negro," newspapers,
records of the criminal justice system and other local agencies,
and the federal census. The author presents numerical details,
along with many examples of the human stories--social and
political--behind the statistics.
Lane reveals how social and economic discrimination created a
black criminal subculture. This subculture, overlooked by those
histories depending on often inaccurate census materials, eroded
family patterns, encouraged violence, discouraged efforts at
middle-class respectability, and intensified employment problems by
adding white fear to the white prejudice that had helped to create
it.
Modern crime rates and patterns are shown to be products of a
historical culture that can be traced from its formative years to
the 1980s. Lane not only charts Philadelphia's story but also makes
suggestions regarding national and international patterns.
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