Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change

by Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith

Book Overview

From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many settings, including the public education system and the criminal justice system, into a powerful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442276959
• ISBN13: 9781442276956
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"