M atthew V az . Running the Numbers

Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling

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ID9496345
AuthorsLashawn Harris (Michigan State University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume126
Issue3
Pages1290-1291
Publication date2021-11-09
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ahr/rhab383
OpenAlexW3211603310
LanguageEN
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Matthew Vaz’s Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling offers an important conversation on urban America and the origins of state-operated lotteries. Vaz joins an impressive cohort of historians, including Douglas Flowe (Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York [2020]), Shannon King (Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era [2015]), Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach (Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago’s Literary Landscape [2013]), and Shane White (Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars [2010]), whose foundational scholarship centers the different ways in which people of African descent employed informal and criminal labor markets to achieve economic stability, wealth, and occupational autonomy and to navigate labor exclusion and other urban inequalities. At the same time, Vaz brings fresh perspectives to scholarly discussions on race and policing, mass incarceration,...

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