Policing Black bodies : how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change

The Resource Policing Black bodies : how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change
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Policing Black bodies : how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change
Title remainder
how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change
Statement of responsibility
Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith
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Language
eng
Summary
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
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
364.3/496073
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
HV9950
LC item number
.H395 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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