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Contains twelve essays in which a variety of authors examine the issue of police brutality, discussing its causes, opposition movements, and its reflection of racism in America.
Contains twelve essays in which a variety of authors examine the issue of police brutality, discussing its causes, opposition movements, and its reflection of racism in America.
Policing and ecological crises - and all the inequalities, discrimination, and violence they entail - are pressing contemporary problems. Ecological degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change threaten local communities and ecosystems, and, cumulatively, the planet as a w…
Policing and ecological crises and all the inequalities, discrimination, and violence they entail are pressing contemporary problems. Ecological degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change threaten local communities and ecosystems, and, cumulatively, the planet as a whole…
In this thesis, I assert that Dance can be a healing modality for Black women by way of my own personal experiences. Dance can aid this specific group from adversity such as police brutality, systemic racism and forms of trauma. I assert that specific forms of dance: praise danc…
The purpose of the following qualitative phenomenological study was to address how African American males describe their perceptions of police officers in light of viewing recordings displaying interactions between African Americans and the police on YouTube. The theoretical fra…
This research examines the unbroken historical link and connection of policing as an institution in the African American community. From slavery to the present there has always been a history of police malevolence in African American communities. Although African Americans are n…
This brief presents a study addressing the impact of a college degree upon officer use of force. The average American municipal police academy only requires 26 weeks of training, despite previous studies showing overwhelming support that college educated police officers apply mo…
This brief presents a study addressing the impact of a college degree upon officer use of force. The average American municipal police academy only requires 26 weeks of training, despite previous studies showing overwhelming support that college educated police officers apply mo…
Utilizing the three-article format, this dissertation examines the severe inequalities related to race, class, and gender in North Texas from 1880 to 1940. The unifying theme of all three articles is the ways in which inequality was enforced in Black-White relations, including t…
The United States is in the midst of a “racial reckoning”, a confrontation with racial inequality brought to the forefront of politics by recurring acts of police brutality. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, massive uprisings in support of racial justice swept over the Unite…
"A searing critique of state violence and intolerance in the United States today, Henry Giroux examines how hot-button issues and events reveal the nation's drift toward totalitarian forms of social control. From police violence in black communities to meteoric rise of Donald Tr…
America at war with itself
by Giroux, Henry A., Kelley, Robin D. G.
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"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to u…