RT Book
T1 Running the numbers: race, police, and the history of urban gambling
T2 Historical studies of urban America
A1 Vaz, Matthew
LA English
PP Chicago London
PB University of Chicago Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1672288886
AB 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.
AB "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"--
CN HV6715
SN 9780226690445
K1 Urban African Americans : Gambling
K1 Gambling : United States
K1 Lotteries : United States