Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: “The Way I See It”: Reframing Black Youth and Racial Injustice 1
5. 1. “The Child Is Never Basically Bad”: Creating Crime through Prevention 13
6. 2. “Margie’s Day”: Youth, Race, and Uprisings in Wartime Harlem 39
7. 3. “Every Generation Has Had the Habit of Going to the Devil”: Constructions of a Postwar Delinquent 68
8. 4. “Beware of the Cat on the Corner”: Deconstructing a Cycle of Outrage 96
9. 5. “In All Our Harlems”: Policing Black Youths through the War on Crime 124
10. Afterword: “Without a Wrinkle in Today”: An Ode to “Young Forever” 151
11. Acknowledgments 157
12. Manuscript Sources 163
13. Notes 165
14. Index 225
15. About the Author 235