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Author:
Gaskew, Tony, author.
Title:
Stop trying to fix policing : lessons learned from the front lines of Black liberation / Tony Gaskew.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xvii, 111 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Police--United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
African Americans--Crimes against--United States.
African Americans--Crimes against.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Discrimination in law enforcement.
Police.
Police brutality.
Police-community relations.
Police--Complaints against.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-102) and index.
Contents:
Black Armed Resistance. Unfriending Policing -- Decolonizing the State Narrative -- Community Self-Determination -- Black Armed Resistance.
Summary:
In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition, using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifying combination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization, self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey that illuminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of American policing--back cover.
Series:
Critical perspectives on race, crime, and justice
ISBN:
1498589502
9781498589505
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1230550718
LCCN:
2020948486
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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