This guide supports library research for "Mapping the World of ‘Black Criminality’" (L90 AFAS 363)

From the WebSTAC course description:

"Ideas concerning the evolution of violence, crime, and criminal behavior have been framed around many different groups.  Yet, what does a typical criminal look like?  How does race - more specifically blackness - alter these conversations, inscribing greater fears about criminal behaviors?  This course taps into this reality examining the varied ways people of African descent have been and continue to be particularly imagined as a distinctly criminal population.  Taking a dual approach, students will consider the historical roots of the policing of black bodies alongside the social history of black crime while also foregrounding where and how black females fit into these critical conversations of crime and vice.  Employing a panoramic approach, students will examine historical narratives, movies and documentaries, literature, popular culture through poetry and contemporary music, as well as the prison industrial complex system."