Khalil Gibran Muhammad is hoogleraar Geschiedenis, Ras en Publiek Beleid aan de Harvard Kennedy School en Suzanne Young Murray Professor aan het Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Hij was voorheen directeur van het Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, een afdeling van de New York Public Library en 's werelds toonaangevende bibliotheek en archief van de wereldwijde zwarte geschiedenis.
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