You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America

by Andrea S. Boyles

Book Overview

You Can't Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography conducted from inside of Ferguson protests as the Black Lives Matter movement catapulted onto the global stage. Sociologist Andrea S. Boyles offers an everyday montage of protests, social ties, and empowerment that coalesced to safeguard black lives while igniting unprecedented twenty-first-century resistance. Focusing on neighborhood crime prevention and contentious black citizen-police...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520298330
• ISBN13: 9780520298330
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"