In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at
the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults.
Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted
fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's
first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet amidst an influx of
new African American arrivals to the city during the Great
Migration, notions of inherent childhood innocence and juvenile
justice were circumscribed by race. In documenting how blackness
became a marker of criminality that overrode the potential
protections the status of ""child"" could have bestowed, Tera Eva
Agyepong shows the entanglements between race and the state's
transition to a more punitive form of juvenile justice. This
important study expands the narrative of racialized criminalization
in America, revealing that these patterns became embedded in a
justice system originally intended to protect children. In doing
so, Agyepong also complicates our understanding of the nature of
migration and what it meant to be black and living in Chicago in
the early twentieth century.
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