After Black Lives Matter - Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle

Why did a movement as powerful as the one inspired by the murder of George Floyd fall short of securing its most militant demands? After Black Lives Matter argues that the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that underpins the crisis of policing: socioeconomic inequality.

List of contents

Introduction: The Frayed Thin Blue Line

1. Policing Capitalist Society
2. Making Consumers and Criminals: The Postwar Urban Transformation and the Origins of Policing as We Know It
3. The Roots of Black Lives Matter: Racial Liberalism and the Problem of Surplus Population
4. The World of Freddie Gray: Dispossession, Rebellion and Containment in Revanchist Baltimore
5. Whose Streets? Building the Just City in Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago and Beyond
6. The Labor of Occupation

Conclusion: Abolish the Conditions

Acknowledgments
Notes

About the author

Cedric G. Johnson

Summary

Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed

Product details

• Authors: Cedric G. Johnson
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781804293003
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-300-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Police & security services, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) peoples, Police and security services