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The rage of innocence : how America criminalizes Black youth / Kristin Henning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henning, Kristin (Law teacher), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in juvenile justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in juvenile justice administration.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- United States.
- African American youth.
- Police-community relations--United States.
- Police-community relations.
- Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.
- Racial profiling in law enforcement.
- Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.
- Discrimination in law enforcement.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 485 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience rep-resenting Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juve-nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo-ple and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of rac-ism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White Amer-ica and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adoles-cent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprece-dented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment.
- Contents:
- American Adolescence in Black and White
- Toy Guns, Cell Phones, and Parties: Criminalizing Black Adolescent Play
- Hoodies, Hip Hop, and Headwraps: Criminalizing Black Adolescent Culture
- Raising "Brutes" and "Jezebels": Criminalizing Black Adolescent Sexuality
- Policing Identity: The Politics of Adolescence and Black Identity Development
- Cops in School
- Contempt of Cop
- Policing by Proxy
- Policing as Trauma
- The Dehumanization of Black Youth: When the Children Aren't Children Anymore
- Things Fall Apart: Black Families in an Era of Mass Incarceration
- #BlackBoyJoy and #BlackGirlMagic: Adolescent Resilience and Reform.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Henning, Kristin, (Law teacher). The rage of innocence
- ISBN:
- 9781524748913
- 1524748919
- Publisher Number:
- 40030760965
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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