Killing African Americans : police and vigilante violence as a racial control mechanism / Noel A. Cazenave, Department of Sociology, The University of Connecticut.
Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave's well-researched and conceptuali...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2018.
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| Series: | New critical viewpoints on society series.
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| Summary: | Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave's well-researched and conceptualized historical sociological study is one of the first books to focus exclusively on those killings and to treat them as political violence. Few issues have received as much conventional and social media attention in the United States over the past few years or have, for decades now, sparked so many protests and so often strained race relations to a near breaking point. Because of both its timely and its enduring relevance, Killing African Americans can reach a large audience composed not only of students and scholars, but also of Movement for Black Lives activists, politicians, public policy analysts, concerned police officers and other criminal justice professionals, and anyone else eager to better understand this American nightmare and its solutions from a progressive and informed African American perspective. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429016134 0429016131 9780429507045 0429507046 9780429016141 042901614X 9780429016127 0429016123 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |