Police brutality: an anthology [1st ed] 9780393048834, 0-393-04883-7, 9780393321630, 0-393-32163-0, 978-0-393-24941-5

Contains twelve essays in which a variety of authors examine the issue of police brutality, discussing its causes, oppos

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Police brutality: an anthology [1st ed]
 9780393048834, 0-393-04883-7, 9780393321630, 0-393-32163-0, 978-0-393-24941-5

Table of contents :
Content: Slangin' rocks, Palestinian style : dispatches from the occupied zones of North America / Robin D.G. Kelley --
Persecution of Negroes by roughs and policemen, in the city of New York, August 1900 : Citizens' Protective League / compiled by Frank Moss --
Police brutality : portent of disaster and discomforting divergence / Derrick Bell --
Nation under siege : Elijah Muhammad, the FBI and police-state culture in Chicago / Claude A. Clegg III --
"What did I do to be so Black and blue?" : police violence and the Black community / Katheryn K. Russell --
Obstacle illusions : the cult of racial appearance / Patricia J. Williams --
What's new? : the truth, as usual / Stanley Crouch --
From the inside looking out : twenty-nine years in the New York Police Department / Lieutenant Arthur Doyle --
Another day at the front : encounters with the fuzz on the American battlefront / Ishmael Reed --
Under the veil of suspicion : organizing resistance and struggling for liberation / Richard Austin --
Point no. 7 : we want an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people : why I joined the Black Panther Party / Flores Alexander Forbes --
The crisis of police brutality and misconduct in America : the causes and the cure / Ron Daniels.

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