Slow and Sudden Violence

Why and When Uprisings Occur
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-40147-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities

In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities.

Repeated decisions to “upgrade” the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations have resulted in pockets of poverty inhabited by people experiencing displacement trauma and police surveillance. These interconnected sets of divestments and accumulated frustrations have contributed to eruptions of violence in response to tragic, unjust police killings. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hyra, Derek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

I Understanding Unrest
1 Riots or Revolts? An Urban Renewal Unrest Perspective

II Linking Slow and Sudden Violence
2 Segregation, Divestment, and Serial Displacement

3 Central Corridor Gentrification and Suburban Segregation

4 Plantation Politics and Policing

5 Ghetto Walls Go Up

6 Ghetto Walls Come Down

7 Watch Out for Broken Windows!

III Breaking the Cycle
8 Revisiting Theories and Racial Policy Responses

Appendix A. A Pandemic Methods Mess and Some Solutions

Appendix B. Select Descriptive Statistics

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Derek Hyra is Professor of Public Administration and Policy and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University. His research focuses on neighborhood change, with an emphasis on housing, urban politics, and race.