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Police brutality : an anthology / edited by Jill Nelson.

Title
Police brutality : an anthology / edited by Jill Nelson.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2000.

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Additional Authors
Nelson, Jill, 1952-
Description
265 pages; 25 cm
Summary
Contains twelve essays in which a variety of authors examine the issue of police brutality, discussing its causes, opposition movements, and its reflection of racism in America.
Subject
  • Police brutality > United States
  • Discrimination in law enforcement > United States
  • Police brutality
  • Discrimination in law enforcement
  • Brutalités policières > États-Unis
  • Discrimination dans l'application des lois > États-Unis
  • Discrimination in law enforcement
  • Menschenrechtsverletzung
  • Polizei
  • Politie
  • Geweld
  • Mishandeling
  • Rassendiscriminatie
  • Violência policial > Estados unidos
  • Police > Complaints against > United States
  • Discrimination in law enforcement > United States
  • Police brutality > United States
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0393048837
  • 9780393048834
  • 0393321630
  • 9780393321630
LCCN
00020532
OCLC
  • 43317928
  • SCSB-10019904
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library