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Police brutality : an anthology / edited by Jill Nelson.

Title
  1. Police brutality : an anthology / edited by Jill Nelson.
Published by
  1. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2000.

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Additional authors
  1. Nelson, Jill, 1952-
Description
  1. 265 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Contains twelve essays in which a variety of authors examine the issue of police brutality, discussing its causes, opposition movements, and its reflection of racism in America.
Subject
  1. Police brutality > United States
  2. Discrimination in law enforcement > United States
  3. Police brutality
  4. Discrimination in law enforcement
  5. Brutalités policières > États-Unis
  6. Discrimination dans l'application des lois > États-Unis
  7. Discrimination in law enforcement
  8. Menschenrechtsverletzung
  9. Polizei
  10. Politie
  11. Geweld
  12. Mishandeling
  13. Rassendiscriminatie
  14. Violência policial > Estados unidos
  15. Police > Complaints against > United States
  16. Discrimination in law enforcement > United States
  17. Police brutality > United States
  18. United States
  19. USA
Contents
  1. Slangin' rocks, Palestinian style : dispatches from the occupied zones of North America / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Persecution of Negroes by roughs and policemen, in the city of New York, August 1900 : Citizens' Protective League / compiled by Frank Moss -- Police brutality : portent of disaster and discomforting divergence / Derrick Bell -- Nation under siege : Elijah Muhammad, the FBI and police-state culture in Chicago / Claude A. Clegg III -- "What did I do to be so Black and blue?" : police violence and the Black community / Katheryn K. Russell -- Obstacle illusions : the cult of racial appearance / Patricia J. Williams -- What's new? : the truth, as usual / Stanley Crouch -- From the inside looking out : twenty-nine years in the New York Police Department / Lieutenant Arthur Doyle -- Another day at the front : encounters with the fuzz on the American battlefront / Ishmael Reed -- Under the veil of suspicion : organizing resistance and struggling for liberation / Richard Austin -- Point no. 7 : we want an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people : why I joined the Black Panther Party / Flores Alexander Forbes -- The crisis of police brutality and misconduct in America : the causes and the cure / Ron Daniels.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
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