Khalil Gibran Muhammad est professeur d'histoire, de race et de politique publique à la Harvard Kennedy School et professeur Suzanne Young Murray au Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Il a précédemment été directeur du Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, une division de la New York Public Library et la principale bibliothèque et archive d'histoire noire mondiale.
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