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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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2018.
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| Series: | New critical viewpoints on society series.
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Table of Contents:
- The police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the twenty-first century
- Making sense of the killings: theoretical insights, conceptual framework, and my racial control argument
- Violence-centered racial control systems and mechanisms in U.S. history
- Police and vigilante killings of African Americans as a racial control mechanism
- Viewing the killings through an economic lens: hypercapitalism and the growth of the American police state
- Ground zero: the vicious cycle of fatal dominative encounters
- Making Black Lives Matter: lessons learned and unfinished business.