Stop Trying to Fix Policing (eBook)

Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation

Tony Gaskew (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
130 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8951-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of BlackLiberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition,using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifyingcombination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization,self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey thatilluminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of Americanpolicing. Stop Trying to Fix Policing is an essential work for anyone who wants to gobeyond the rhetoric of police reform, to the next step: contributing to the formation of aworld without policing.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Black armed resistance • Black Radical Tradition • Black self-determination • critical race theory • Decolonization • dismantling American policing • police abolition • ritual of revolution • spiritual inheritance
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8951-0 / 1498589510
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8951-2 / 9781498589512