Full Description
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.
Contents
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
