Neighborhood Watch: Policing White Spaces in America

ISBN-13: 9781108840064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Shawn E. Fields

Opis

This book explores how private citizens police Black people in America to enforce de facto color lines and maintain 'White spaces.'

Recenzje

'Neighborhood Watch is a must-read for all who want to understand how space is racialized in the United States and how everyday white residents have repeatedly utilized their racialized understandings of these spaces - through 911, neighborhood watch programs, social media platforms, and more - to police the racial boundaries and hierarchies that a system of Jim Crow once explicitly regulated. Professor Shawn Fields deftly illustrates the interconnected ways in which governments promote and encourage racial violence and brilliantly exposes readers to the public-private partnership in enforcing the 'color line' in our nation.' Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean, Boston University School of Law

Spis treści

Introduction: a personal protection agency; 1. Cycles of racial fear; 2. White caller crime; 3. Just a hunch; 4. Defending white space; 5. Unqualified immunity; 6. Permanent fear; 7. Rethinking maximum policing; 8. Resisting a 'shoot first, think later' culture; Epilogue: 'send her back'.