Khalil Gibran Muhammad ist Professor für Geschichte, Rasse und öffentliche Politik an der Harvard Kennedy School und Suzanne Young Murray Professorin am Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Zuvor war er Direktor des Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, einer Abteilung der New York Public Library und der weltweit führenden Bibliothek und Archiv für globale schwarze Geschichte.
Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
"The book presents the aesthetic of narrative employed by literary discourse through the literary works of some Arab writers renowned in the Arab World and at international levels, as well as some Palestinian writers in Israel, through literary models dealing with reality in the areas of: poetry, short story, and novel, and through a critical view trying to elucidate the intellectual and literary value of those literary models"--back cover