Policing Black Bodies (eBook)

How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change

Angela J. Hattery, Earl Smith (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
284 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7696-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Policing Black Bodies walks readers through critical issues facing African Americans in the criminal justice system—from police brutality to exoneration and re-entry. Synthesizing the latest research with their own data, Hattery and Smith review the history of policing African Americans, explore current issues, and offer recommendations for change.

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From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many settings, including the public education system and the criminal justice system, into a powerful narrative about the myriad ways Black bodies are policed.Policing Black Bodies goes beyond chronicling isolated incidents of injustice to look at the broader systems of inequality in our society-how they're structured, how they harm Black people, and how we can work for positive change. The book discusses the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration and the prison boom, the unique ways Black women and trans people are treated, wrongful convictions and the challenges of exoneration, and more. Each chapter of the book opens with a true story, explains the history and current state of the issue, and looks toward how we can work for change. The book calls attention to the ways class, race, and gender contribute to injustice, as well as the perils of colorblind racism-that by pretending not to see race we actually strengthen, rather than dismantle, racist social structures. Policing Black Bodies is a powerful call to acknowledge injustice and work for change.

Autor

Angela J. Hattery is professor and director of women and gender studies at George Mason University. Her books include Intimate Partner Violence.Earl Smith is emeritus professor at Wake Forest University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Race, Sport, and the American Dream.African American Families Today: Myths and Realities.

Inhalt

1 Setting the Stage2 Urban Riots and Protest, or a Logical Response to Policing Black Bodies3 Mass Incarceration4 School-to-Prison Pipeline5 The Prison-Industrial Complex: The New Plantation Economy6 Policing Black Women’s Bodies7 Policing Trans Bodies8 Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men9 The Ultimate Failure: Exoneration10 Intersectionality, Color-Blind Racism, and a Call to ActionAppendix A: High-Profile Police Shootings of Black Men and the OutcomesAppendix B: Resources

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Illustrations including: - 3 Black & White Illustrations; - 6 Color Illustrations; - 3 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • bail • black body • Black men • criminal justice • Domestic Policing • Exoneration • Incarceration • Kalief Browder • Mass Incarceration • oj simpson • parole • Police brutality • policing • Poverty • Probation • Prosecutors • Race • Racism • Re-Entry • Riots • Sandra bland • School to Prison Pipeline • United States • Urban Policing
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7696-7 / 1442276967
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7696-3 / 9781442276963