Douglas J Flowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1217192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas J Flowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Flowe |
| SIGNATURE | FLOWE D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9405-4891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Come Home to Us Once More Again
When young African American men found themselves in the purview of the law in New York State in the early twentieth century, they frequently faced a sort of scrutiny based upon popular eugenics beliefs about race that condemned them to long terms in jails, reformatories, and prisons. Psychiatrists, doctors, and keepers used intelligence tests, observation, and racial stereotypes to classify these young men as “defective” and questioned their fitn…
“Drug-Mad Negroes”
This study tracks the evolution of racist ideas pertaining to Black drug addiction and crime and the growth of a real interracial drug subculture, both of which had a part in forging New York’s drug policies in the early twentieth century. Well-worn racial tropes about drug use, cultivated in the imaginations of white commentators and pseudoscientists, railroaded African American suspects and contributed to the creation of the early apparatuses o…
Running the Numbers
Matthew Vaz's history of urban gambling builds on the work of Shane White, Mark H. Haller, and LaShawn Harris to offer a pithy overview of the evolution of numbers running. Vaz tracks the industry from its brown paper bag, door-to-door origins in neighborhoods such as Harlem, in the early twentieth century to the “development of modern government lottery gambling” later in the century (p. 3). He entangles the racial politics of the time with the …
Uncontrollable Blackness
Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, by focusing on what their actions and behaviors represented to them. He…
Fighting and Cutting and Shooting, and Carrying On”
Most historical studies of early twentieth-century American saloons focus on white ethnic immigrants and largely neglect black drinking dives. To understand the significance of saloons to African Americans it is necessary to differentiate the black experience from the dominant historical narrative. Scrutinizing the media depiction of black male Tenderloin residents as “toughs” I question whether some black men refashioned masculinity with public …
Bound to Respect
Reviewed by: Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861 by Keith Michael Green Douglas J. Flowe (bio) Green, Keith Michael. Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2015. In Bound to Respect, English Professor Keith Michael Green exposes the complex, messy, and often unpredictable system of bondage faced by Af…
Running the Numbers
Matthew Vaz's history of urban gambling builds on the work of Shane White, Mark H. Haller, and LaShawn Harris to offer a pithy overview of the evolution of numbers running. Vaz tracks the industry from its brown paper bag, door-to-door origins in neighborhoods such as Harlem, in the early twentieth century to the “development of modern government lottery gambling” later in the century (p. 3). He entangles the racial politics of the time with the …
Bound to Respect
Reviewed by: Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861 by Keith Michael Green Douglas J. Flowe (bio) Green, Keith Michael. Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2015. In Bound to Respect, English Professor Keith Michael Green exposes the complex, messy, and often unpredictable system of bondage faced by Af…
Fighting and Cutting and Shooting, and Carrying On”
Most historical studies of early twentieth-century American saloons focus on white ethnic immigrants and largely neglect black drinking dives. To understand the significance of saloons to African Americans it is necessary to differentiate the black experience from the dominant historical narrative. Scrutinizing the media depiction of black male Tenderloin residents as “toughs” I question whether some black men refashioned masculinity with public …
Uncontrollable Blackness
Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, by focusing on what their actions and behaviors represented to them. He…
“Drug-Mad Negroes”
This study tracks the evolution of racist ideas pertaining to Black drug addiction and crime and the growth of a real interracial drug subculture, both of which had a part in forging New York’s drug policies in the early twentieth century. Well-worn racial tropes about drug use, cultivated in the imaginations of white commentators and pseudoscientists, railroaded African American suspects and contributed to the creation of the early apparatuses o…
Running the Numbers
Matthew Vaz's history of urban gambling builds on the work of Shane White, Mark H. Haller, and LaShawn Harris to offer a pithy overview of the evolution of numbers running. Vaz tracks the industry from its brown paper bag, door-to-door origins in neighborhoods such as Harlem, in the early twentieth century to the “development of modern government lottery gambling” later in the century (p. 3). He entangles the racial politics of the time with the …
Come Home to Us Once More Again
When young African American men found themselves in the purview of the law in New York State in the early twentieth century, they frequently faced a sort of scrutiny based upon popular eugenics beliefs about race that condemned them to long terms in jails, reformatories, and prisons. Psychiatrists, doctors, and keepers used intelligence tests, observation, and racial stereotypes to classify these young men as “defective” and questioned their fitn…
Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Imprisonment (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works)