Occupied territory : policing black Chicago from Red Summer to black power / Simon Balto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balto, Simon, author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

North Carolina scholarship online.

Justice, power, and politics

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in law enforcement--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Discrimination in law enforcement.

African Americans--Civil rights--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.). Police Department--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Summary:

In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. Black migrants' arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, including members of the city's political leadership and police department. During Chicago's Red Summer riot, patterns of extraordinary brutality, negligence, and discriminatory policing emerged to shocking effect. In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighborhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression. Balto demonstrates that punitive practices by and inadequate protection from the police were central to black Chicagoans' lives long before the late-century 'wars' on crime and drugs.

Contents:

Negro distrust of the police increased : migration, prohibition, and regime-building in the 1920s

You can't shoot all of us : radical politics, machine politics, and law and order in the Great Depression

Whose police? Race, privilege, and policing in postwar Chicago

The law has a bad opinion of me : Chicago's punitive turn

Occupied territory : reform and racialization

Shoot to kill : rebellion and retrenchment in post-civil rights Chicago

Do you consider revolution to be a crime? Fighting for police reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

9798890853394

9781469649603

1469649608

9781469649610

1469649616

OCLC:

1089254245