Killing African Americans : police and vigilante violence as a racial control mechanism / Noel A. Cazenave, Department of Sociology, The University of Connecticut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cazenave, Noel A., 1948- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

New critical viewpoints on society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

African Americans--Violence against.

African Americans.

African Americans--Crimes against.

Violence--United States.

Violence.

Homicide--United States.

Homicide.

Police brutality--United States.

Police brutality.

Physical Description:

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

"Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenaves well-researched and conceptualized historical sociological study is one of the first books to focus exclusively on those killings and to treat them as political violence. Few issues have received as much conventional and social media attention in the United States over the past few years or have, for decades now, sparked so many protests and so often strained race relations to a near breaking point. Because of both its timely and its enduring relevance Killing African Americans can reach a large audience composed not only of students and scholars, but also of Movement for Black Lives activists, politicians, public policy analysts, concerned police officers and other criminal justice professionals, and anyone else eager to better understand this American nightmare and its solutions from a progressive and informed African American perspective."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Police and Vigilante Killings of African Americans in the Twenty-First Century

Making Sense of the Killings : Theoretical Insights, Conceptual Framework, and My Racial Control Argument

Violence-Centered Racial Control Systems and Mechanisms in U.S. History

Police and Vigilante Killings of African Americans as a Racial Control Mechanism

Viewing the Killings Through an Economic Lens : Hypercapitalism and the Growth of the American Police State

Ground Zero : The Vicious Cycle of Fatal Dominative Encounters

Making Black Lives Matter : Lessons Learned and Unfinished Business.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781138549920

1138549924

9781138549937

1138549932

OCLC:

1015998496