"Una ola de color ha barrido la geografía política de Estados Unidos. Los repetidos asesinatos de chicas y chicos negros han galvanizado a la población afroamericana mostrando la ilusión de una sociedad posracial. Crisis, desempleo, políticas racistas y sobre todo impunidad poli…
This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?' Adding challenge to this is that setting boundaries on what we expect the police to do…
Pt. 1. The African American criminal in culture and media -- pt. 2. Slave voices and bodies in poetry and plays -- pt. 3. Representing African American gender and sexuality in pop-culture and society -- pt. 4. Black cultural production in music and dance -- pt. 5. Obama and the …
Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, exc…
Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, exc…
This book presents a four-stage political process model and applies it to the empirical evidence of police violence in Toronto and New York City over a 15-year time span. Three well-publicized cases of police violence from each city, matched on important criteria, are the subjec…