Abstract
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Pp. xvii, 278. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) ing nature of these tools; his caution against the “ubiquitous referencing of crime statistics about black criminality today,” given the silence that often surrounds white crime, is both provocative and well-founded (p. 277). Undoubtedly, his book will be a seminal text for historical, as well as contemporary, studies of race, crime, and urbanity. KALI NICOLE GROSS is Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Drexel University. She is the author of the award-winning book, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 (2006) and is currently finishing her second book, A Ghastly Find: Mary Hannah Tabbs and the Case of the Disembodied Torso, Philadelphia 1887.
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