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The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment and Other Macroaggressions is a 1998 book by American academic Katheryn Russell-Brown (Katheryn K. Russell at the time of the book's publication), published by New York University Press (NYUP), with a second edition in 2008. The book discusses the topic of race and crime in the United States, particularly in the context of black–white relations.

It looks at the stereotypes of black men as criminals (what she refers to as the "criminalblackman" myth); whether black people commit a disproportionate amount of crime; how the criminal stereotypes have enabled the use of "racial hoaxes"; whether black people are discriminated against in society, in law enforcement, and in the justice system; white supremacism and white racism; how black people protect their own; and the idea of "macroagression" where a whole society is involved in persecuting a group.^[1] The book has been widely cited since its publication.{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}}

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The book popularised the term "racial hoax", which Russell-Brown defines as occurring when someone fabricates a crime and blames it on another person because of their race or when an actual crime has been committed and the perpetrator falsely blames someone because of their race.^[4] It gives the cases of Susan Smith, Jesse Anderson, and Charles Stuart as examples of racial hoaxes.^[5] She proposes six principles to achieve fairness in the criminal justice system:

Reception

However, Russell-Brown, who is African-American, and the book have been criticised for being biased.^[11] Critics have said the book downplays the level of black crime and that it over-attributes black crime to a discriminatory justice system.

References

1. ^[https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-845604141 "The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and other Macroaggressions"] (via Questia Online Library). Ethnic Studies Review. 1 January 1998. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
2. ^Russell, Katheryn K.; Pfeifer, Heather L.; Jones, Judith L. (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2iF-q26wKBEC&pg=PA121 Race and Crime: An Annotated Bibliography]. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 121. {{ISBN|0-313-31033-5}}
3. ^Russell-Brown, p. 71.
4. ^Russell-Brown, p. 70.
5. ^Russell-Brown, pp. 69–70.
6. ^¹March 1999. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2990956 [Review by Hernán Vera]] (via JSTOR). American Journal of Sociology 104 (5): pp. 1548–1550.
7. ^Miller, Erin. "Black, Poor, and Incarcerated: Criminal Justice in America" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721003143/http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0700/072k09.htm |date=2011-07-21 }}. peaceworkmagazine.org (Peacework Magazine). July/August 2000. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
8. ^Rome, Denis (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=81T5qTwkJikC&pg=PA3 Black Demons: The Media's Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype]. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 3. {{ISBN|0-275-97244-5}}
9. ^"The Color of Crime (Second Edition)". New York University Press. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
10. ^Childs, Erica Chito (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ck5FnWIE1gQC&pg=PA151 Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture]. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 151. {{ISBN|978-0-7425-6079-6}}
11. ^"The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment and Other Macroaggressions" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110194102/http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/russellcoc.htm |date=2012-01-10 }}. Law and Politics Book Review website citing a review by Randy Glean in Law and Politics Book Review 8 (6): pp. 268–269.

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