Race, Place, and Suburban Policing

Too Close for Comfort
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-28239-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

While considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing tells the full story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context. Through compelling interviews, participant observation, and field notes from a marginalized black enclave located in a predominately white suburb, Andrea S. Boyles examines a fraught police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyles, Andrea S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Foreword, by Rod K. Brunson
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • Race, Place, and Policing in the United States
2 • “You’re nothing but trash over here.”: Black Faces in White Places
3 • There’s a New Sheriff in Town: Th e Police Making Contact
4 • “It’s the same song.”: The Tragedies of Kevin Johnson and Charles “Cookie” Thornton
5 • The Road to Reconciliation
Conclusion and Discussion

Epilogue
Appendix: Study Participants
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea S. Boyles is Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Tulane University. She is a feminist, race scholar, and author of You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America.