The Men of Mobtown

Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation

Adam C. Malka (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2018
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3629-0 (ISBN)

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What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam C. Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during and after slavery's final decades. He argues that America's new professional police forces and prisons were developed to expand, not curb, the reach of white vigilantes, and are best understood as a uniformed wing of the gangs that controlled free black people by branding them—and treating them—as criminals. The post–Civil War triumph of liberal ideals thus also marked a triumph of an institutionalized belief in black criminality.

Mass incarceration may be a recent phenomenon, but the problems that undergird the ""new Jim Crow"" are very, very old. As Malka makes clear, a real reckoning with this national calamity requires not easy reforms but a deeper, more radical effort to overcome the racial legacies encoded into the very DNA of our police institutions.

Adam C. Malka is assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Justice, Power, and Politics
Zusatzinfo	3 halftones, 2 graphs, 18 tables
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-3629-8 / 1469636298
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-3629-0 / 9781469636290
Zustand	Neuware