Policing Race and Nightlife.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wicks, Nikhaela.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This powerful study reveals how policing and licensing practices racialise the night-time economy, suppressing Black-inspired events and marginalising communities, offering a fresh perspective on race, surveillance and nightlife.

Contents:

Front Cover

Policing Race and Nightlife

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Why study nightlife?

Policing 'race' and nightlife

Gentrification

The door

Licensing

Music

Theorizing 'race'

Theorizing policing

Policing 'race' in the UK

Why focus on policing ?

The structure of the book

2 Situating the Research: Methods and Reflections

Introducing Greenshire

The venues

Altitude

Teasers

Eclectic

Outlaws

Monarchy

Air and Breathe

The Kings Arms

The research

Critical discourse analysis as the analytical framework

Gaining access and 'acceptance'?

'Why are you interested in research on 'race'?: reflections of a white, woman researcher

Unanticipated risks

The physical and emotional tolls of a night-​time ethnography

Conclusion

3 Police Training and the Diversity Agenda: Maintaining the Racial Status Quo

Police training in England and Wales

From 'race' to diversity training

'Us' and 'them': constructing the good, moral and tolerant police organization

Inferiorization

Individualization: narratives of prejudice and unconscious bias

Historicizing racism

Transmitting institutional meanings of racism to new recruits

Stop and search training: how to 'cover your arse' from Black complainants

Disorientating whiteness: apathy, frustration and resentment

4 Night-​Time Licensing and the Power of the Police

Licensing in England and Wales

Police power in licensing decisions: discourses of objectivity and neutrality

Temporary Event Notices

Police investigations into TENs: determining events with Black performers, promoters and Black crowds

Local authority investigations into TENs: containing Gypsies and Travellers in rural pubs.

Licence holders

Responsibilization techniques and the gangs matrix

Notifying the police of Black-​inspired events

Supplying the police with intelligence on Black performers

Managing inter-​racial interaction

5 Policing 'Urban Nights' and the Acceptable White Local Frame

The mainstreaming of Black music cultures and the popularity of 'urban nights'

'Urban nights': deviation from the white local norm

Protecting white space: the collective police memory of 'urban nights'

Managing threat: all search policies and 'unacceptably white' outsiders

Door staff: upholding the acceptable white local frame

Body language, word choice and speech patterns

The three-​second window

Dress

Dance

Techniques of neutralization for white revellers

'The race card': Black revellers as illegitimate complainants

'Covering your arse': multicultural door teams

The use of identity codes

6 Excluding Gypsies and Travellers from Nightlife: Historical Policing Practices, Surveillance and Dress Codes

Gypsies and Travellers and their ambiguous relationship with whiteness

The Gypsy and Traveller as 'the stranger'

Gypsies and Travellers in the UK and Greenshire

Deviating from the white, local norm

Gypsies and Travellers as 'no nos'

The role of the public police in 'no no-​ing'

Dress codes

'That's racist!': the positive self-​representation of the public police

Raising complaints of racism to the police

'It's a private premises, we don't have to give you a reason'

The public police and soft anti-​racism

Challenging racism towards Gypsies and Travellers: reflections from street pastors

7 Conclusions

The denial of racism and the significance of race

The acceptable white local frame

Night-​time licensing

'On the ground'.

Unacceptable whites: Gypsies and Travellers

Protecting white space: the threat of 'race'

'Covering your arse'

Recommendations for future research

Learning from other geographical contexts: tackling racism in the night-​time economy

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-3853-6

9781529238532

OCLC:

1583173949