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Who do you serve, who do you protect? : police violence and resistance in the United States / edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré and Alana Yu-lan Price ; foreword by Alicia Garza.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schenwar, Maya.
Contributor:
Schenwar, Maya, editor.
Macaré, Joe, editor.
Price, Alana Yu-lan, editor.
Alicia Garza, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.
Discrimination in law enforcement.
Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.
Racial profiling in law enforcement.
Police brutality--United States.
Police brutality.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
2021.
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2016.
Summary:
Explores the reality of US police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities.
Contents:
Foreword / Alicia Garza
Introduction / Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré and Alana Yu-lan Price
Part I. Police failing to serve and protect. Killing the future : the theft of Black life / Nicholas Powers
Ring of snitches : how Detroit police slapped false murder convictions on young Black men / Aaron Miguel Cantu
Amid shootings, Chicago Police Department upholds culture of impunity / Sarah Macaraeg and Alison Flowers
Beyond Homan Square : US history is steeped in torture / Adam Hudson
"Never again a world without us" : the many tentacles of state violence against Black-Brown-Indigenous communities / Roberto Rodriguez
Killing Africa / William C. Anderson
Say her name : what it mean to center Black women's experiences of police violence / Andrea J. Ritchie
Your pregnancy may subject you to even more law enforcement violence / Victoria Law
Black parenting matters : raising children in a world of police terror / Eisa Nefertari Ulen
Part II. Communities building resistance and alternative. Big dreams and bold steps toward a police-free future / Rachel Herzig
We charge genocide : the emergence of a movement / Asha Rosa, Monica Trinidad and Page May
Heeding the call : Black women fighting for Black lives that matter / Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Our history and our dreams : building Black and Native solidarity / Kelly Hayes
A new year's resolution : don't call the police / Mike Ludwig
Community groups work to provide emergency medical alternatives, separate from police / Candice Bernd
Building community safety : practical steps toward liberatory transformation / Ejeris Dixon
Acknowledgments
About the editors and contributors
Notes
Index.
Notes:
Includes index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 11, 2016).
ISBN:
9781608466849
1608466841
OCLC:
952247161

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