Khalil Gibran Muhammad je profesorem historie, rasy a veřejné politiky na Harvard Kennedy School a profesorem Suzanne Young Murray v Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Dříve působil jako ředitel Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, divize New York Public Library a předního světového archivu a knihovny globální černošské historie.
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