"For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings-portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property-to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal may...

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1. Verfasser:	King, Shannon (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2024]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1934-1945 Rassendiskriminierung Polizei Sicherheit und Ordnung Schwarze New York, NY New York (N.Y.) / Police Department / History / 20th century African Americans / New York (State) / New York / Social conditions / 20th century Racism in law enforcement / New York (State) / New York / 20th century Police-community relations / New York (State) / New York / 20th century Police / Complaints against / New York (State) / New York / 20th century Public safety / New York (State) / New York / History / 20th century
Zusammenfassung:	"For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings-portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property-to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. As the Depression and wartime conditions spurred youth crime, white New Yorkers' anxieties-about crime, the movement of Black people into white neighborhoods, and headlines featuring Black 'hoodlums' emblazoned all over the white media-drove their support for the expansion of police patrols in the city, especially in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Though Blacks also called for police protection and for La Guardia to provide equitable municipal resources, they primarily received more punishment. This set the stage for the Harlem uprising of 1943. Shannon King uncovers how Black activism for safety was a struggle against police brutality and crime, highlighting how the police withholding protection operated as a form of police violence and an abridgement of their civil rights. By decentering familiar narratives of riots, King places Black activism against harm at the center of the Black freedom struggle, revealing how Black neighborhoods became occupied territories in La Guardia's New York"
Beschreibung:	368 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:	9781469676166 9781469676173