Politics of Safety (eBook)

The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York

Shannon King (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
376 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7618-0 (ISBN)

Infos

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black "e;thugs"e; throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. As the Depression and wartime conditions spurred youth crime, white New Yorkers' anxietiesabout crime, the movement of Black people into white neighborhoods, and headlines featuring Black "e;hoodlums"e; emblazoned all over the white mediadrove their support for the expansion of police patrols in the city, especially in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Though Blacks also called for police protection and for La Guardia to provide equitable municipal resources, they primarily received more punishment. This set the stage for the Harlem uprising of 1943.Shannon King uncovers how Black activism for safety was a struggle against police brutality and crime, highlighting how the police withholding protection operated as a form of police violence and an abridgement of their civil rights. By decentering familiar narratives of riots, King places Black activism against harm at the center of the Black freedom struggle, revealing how Black neighborhoods became occupied territories in La Guardia's New York.

Autor

Shannon King is associate professor of history at Fairfield University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. • bedford-stuyvesant • black criminality • Blackness • carceral state • crime news • discourses of crime • Disinvestment • Fiorello H. La Guardia • Harlem • Harlem riot of 1935 • Harlem riot of 1943 • Law and Order • Lewis Valentine • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • New York City • New York Police Department • police discretion • police violence • policing, police power • racial liberalism • Safety • whiteness • white violence • youth crime
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7618-4 / 1469676184
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7618-0 / 9781469676180