America on fire : the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
305.800973/HINTON,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781631498909, 1631498908 :, 1631498908, 9781631498909
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The cycle -- The projects -- The vigilantes -- The snipers -- The poisoned tree -- The schools -- The commissions -- The system -- The proposal -- The reforms
Drawing on new sources, a leading scholar presents a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights moment without coming to terms with the astonishing violence, and hugely expanded policing regime, that followed it