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Black Lives And Spatial Matters : Policing Blackness And Practicing Freedom In Suburban St. Louis | ||||
ISBN: 9781501750465 | Price: 125.00 | |||
Volume: | Dewey: 305.896073077865 | Grade Min: | Publication Date: 2020-08-15 | |
LCC: 2019-058749 | LCN: HT1581.R56 2020 | Grade Max: | Version: | |
Contributor: Rios, Jodi | Series: Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance Ser. | Publisher: Cornell University Press | Extent: 294 | |
Contributor: | Reviewer: Lee D Baker | Affiliation: Duke University | Issue Date: August 2021 | |
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Rios has written a compelling, theoretically sophisticated analysis of predatory policing and the Ferguson protest movement that erupted in the wake of the 2014 police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. As the author contends, the patchwork of small municipalities that cover North St. Louis County produces "[B]lackness-as-risk." She documents how city officials strive to promote safety, protect property, and uphold norms of respectability by policing, disciplining, and fining poor Black people for minor infractions, trapping them in a cruel cycle of paying for their suffering. This revenue generates up to 52 percent of these cities' budgets. The anti-Black logic of predatory policing is not limited to predominantly white suburbs. Black mayors who fantasize about creating placid communities are also seduced by respectability politics and policing. As more affluent white municipalities poach shopping centers and businesses in areas with fewer advantages, creating tax revenues for their own communities, there is pressure on Black mayors to increase predatory policing to generate the revenue lost to outside businesses. Rios concludes with a brilliant assessment of the queer and trans women who led the Ferguson movement and their relationship with the Black Lives Matter movement.Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, advanced undergraduates through faculty, and professionals. | ||||
Race And The Senses : The Felt Politics Of Racial Embodiment | ||||
ISBN: 9781350087538 | Price: 120.00 | |||
Volume: | Dewey: 306 | Grade Min: | Publication Date: 2020-06-30 | |
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Contributor: Sekimoto, Sachi | Series: Sensory Studies | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group | Extent: 198 | |
Contributor: Brown, Christopher | Reviewer: Wilfredo Alvarez | Affiliation: Utica College | Issue Date: February 2021 | |
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Sekimoto and Brown (both, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato) offer a daring, provocative analysis of how race is reified and negotiated through sensory experiences, placing the individual within an embodied social structure. Uniquely, they write not only about the senses but seemingly through the senses. This approach enables them to unfold a novel critique that extends readers' potential understanding of the race construct through sensory imagination. Moving beyond common analytic categories (e.g., analyzing language and discourse as constitutive of social structures) into the realm of sensing (e.g., describing weight, movement, and rhythm), they examine manifestations of race in personal experience. Anchored in a robust body of multidisciplinary research, the text adopts a phenomenological and autoethnographic approach, examining how the authors' own speech gestures embody their racialized everyday realities. Particularly, the authors recount their experiences of learning the nuances of Standard American English: for Sekimoto through learning English as a second language and for Brown as he navigated the requirements of "speaking white-while-black." Thus, physical performance, e.g., the movements of the tongue in speech, is linked to hierarchical notions of race and culture. A distinctive achievement in the scholarship of communication and race, this book will be useful to scholars of intercultural communication, critical cultural studies, ethnic studies, and sociology.Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty researchers. |