Full Description
"An essential work that advances an acute awareness of our responsibility to make society equitable for all." Library Journal, Starred Review
In this provocative book, the authors connect the regulation of African American people in many settings into a powerful narrative. Completely updated throughout, the book now includes a new chapter on policing black athletes' bodies, and expanded coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, policing trans bodies, and policing Black women's bodies.
Contents
CONTENTSPreface to the second edition
Acknowledgments
1. Setting the Stage
2. Social Protest, or a Logical Response to Policing Black Bodies
3. Mass Incarceration
4. School-to-Prison Pipeline
5. The Prison-Industrial Complex: The New Plantation Economy
6. Policing Black Women's Bodies
7. Policing Trans Bodies
8. Police Killings of Unarmed Black People
9. The Ultimate Failure: Exoneration
10. Policing Black Athletes' Bodies
11. Intersectionality, Color-Blind Racism, and a Call to Action
Notes
Bibliography
Index
