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New Director for Schomburg Center Named

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Dr. Muhammad, who has been at Indiana University since 2005, is the author of ?The Condemnation of Blackness: ?Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America? (Harvard University Press, 2010), a well-received exploration of how notions of black criminality were crucial to the creation of modern urban centers. On his Indiana University Web site, Dr. Muhammad lists his research interests as including the racial politics of criminal law, policing, juvenile delinquency and punishment, as well as immigration and social reform." He is the grandson of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam and the son of Ozier Muhammad, a photographer for The New York Times. New Director for Schomburg Center Named By FELICIA R. LEE- NY Times November 17, 2010 Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a history professor at Indiana University, has been named the new director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, to begin in July 2011...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).