Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality

by Jeffrey S. Adler

Book Overview

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States.

Too often, scholars and pundits argue either that police violence against African Americans has remained unchanged since the era of slavery or that it is a recent phenomenon and disconnected from the past. Neither view is accurate. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show, in narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520402340
• ISBN13: 9780520402348
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"