The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, published by Harvard University Press. The Condemnation of Blackness won the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, which is awarded annually to the best published book in American studies. As an academic, Muhammad is at the forefront of scholarship on the enduring link between race and crime in the United States that has shaped and limited opportunities for African Americans. His research interests include the racial politics of criminal law, policing, juvenile delinquency and punishment, as well as immigration and social reform. Muhammad is working on his second book, Disappearing Acts: The End of White Criminality in the Age of Jim Crow, which traces the historical roots of the changing demographics of crime and punishment so evident today. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as on Moyers & Company, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and Radio One. Professional affiliations and honors Muhammad has been an associate editor of The Journal of American History, and was recently appointed to the editorial board of Transition Magazine, published by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He has served or currently serves on the New York City Council's Task Force to Combat Gun Violence, the United States National Research Council's Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, and the board of the Barnes Foundation. In 2011, Crain's New York Business chose Muhammad as one of its notable 40 Under 40. In 2012, he was listed as #49 on the Root 100. He regularly appears on the Melissa Harris-Perry show. Personal life Muhammad has been married to Stephanie Lawson-Muhammad since 1998. Together they have three children. He was named after the Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League, Khalil Gibran. Selected works and publications References External links Living people University of Pennsylvania alumni Rutgers University alumni Indiana University faculty Writers from Chicago 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers African-American academics Elijah Muhammad family 1972 births Historians from Illinois American male non-fiction writers 21st-century African-American writers 20th-century African-American people African-American male writers