Slow and Sudden Violence : Why and When Uprisings Occur

Hyra, Derek

University of California Press（2024/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520401471
• DDC分類 363.32097526

Full Description

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.

Contents

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