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African Americans Violence against History 20th century HISTORY / African American Police brutality United States 20th century Race riots United States History 20th century Racial profiling in law enforcement United States 20th century United State Race relations History 20th century United States Race relations History 20th centuryHinton, Elizabeth
Summary: Historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates that the nationwide protests that arose in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 had clear precursors, and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation's enduring strife, Hinton also issues a warning: rebellions will surely...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Drawing on new sources, a leading scholar presents a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights moment without coming to terms with the astonishing violence, and hugely expanded policing regime, that followed it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021