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Running the numbers : race, police, and the history of urban gambling
- Title
- Running the numbers : race, police, and the history of urban gambling / Matthew Vaz.
- Author
- Vaz, Matthew
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- 197 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Strictly and widely illegal, the most common manifestations of urban gambling were once "the numbers game" and "policy," in which people would place daily bets on random numbers, through community institutions, such as newsstands and barbershops. Gambling became one of the largest economic activities and sources of employment in some nonwhite neighborhoods-and therefore it drew intense police interest. Some of the most corrupt and blatantly discriminatory police actions centered on gambling and its practitioners. The state's interest doomed urban gambling, as many states coopted the market with their own hugely lucrative lotteries. A game that first flourished in poor and nonwhite urban communities has become America's game"--
- Series Statement
- Historical studies of urban America
- Uniform Title
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-190) and index.
- Contents
- Politics and the Old Policy Wheel -- "Are You Going to Let a Negro Name the Next Mayor of Chicago?": Investigations and Elections -- This Community Is Being Criminalized -- Half of the Rest of Their Lives in Jail -- We Intend to Run It -- Conclusion: Lottery as an American Way of Life.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-261
- ISBN
- 9780226690445
- 022669044X
- LCCN
- 2019035396
- OCLC
- 1114281929
- Author
- Vaz, Matthew, author.
- Title
- Running the numbers : race, police, and the history of urban gambling / Matthew Vaz.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Historical studies of urban AmericaHistorical studies of urban America.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-190) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-261