Policing Black Bodies - How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change

"An essential work...." Library Journal, Starred Review • In this provocative book that connects the regulation of African American people into a powerful narrative. Updated throughout, the book includes a new chapter on policing black athletes' bodies, and expanded coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, policing trans bodies, and policing Black women's bodies.

List of contents

CONTENTSPreface to the second edition
Acknowledgments
1. Setting the Stage
2. Social Protest, or a Logical Response to Policing Black Bodies
3. Mass Incarceration
4. School-to-Prison Pipeline
5. The Prison-Industrial Complex: The New Plantation Economy
6. Policing Black Women's Bodies
7. Policing Trans Bodies
8. Police Killings of Unarmed Black People
9. The Ultimate Failure: Exoneration
10. Policing Black Athletes' Bodies
11. Intersectionality, Color-Blind Racism, and a Call to Action
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Angela J. Hattery is professor of women and gender studies and co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence at the University of Delaware. Her books include Intimate Partner Violence.

Earl Smith is emeritus professor at Wake Forest University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Race, Sport, and the American Dream.

Together they are the authors of African American Families Today: Myths and Realities.

Product details

• Authors: Angela J Hattery, Angela J Smith Hattery, Angela J. Hattery, Angela J. Smith Hattery, Hattery Angela J., Earl Smith
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538142547
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4254-7
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Social discrimination and social justice