Khalil Gibran Muhammad è professore di Storia, Razza e Politiche Pubbliche presso la Harvard Kennedy School e professore Suzanne Young Murray presso il Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In precedenza, ha ricoperto il ruolo di Direttore dello Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, una divisione della New York Public Library e la principale biblioteca e archivio mondiale della storia nera globale.
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