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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460944403321

Autore

Boyles Andrea S.

Titolo

Race, Place, and Suburban Policing : Too Close for Comfort / / Andrea S. Boyles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-520-95808-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

363.230896073077865

Soggetti

African Americans -- Missouri -- Kirkwood -- Social conditions

Police-community relations -- Missouri -- Kirkwood

Police-community relations - Social conditions - Kirkwood - Missouri

African Americans - Kirkwood - Missouri

Police - Kirkwood - Missouri

Racism in criminology - Missouri - Kirkwood

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Race, Place, and Policing in the United States -- 2. "You're nothing but trash over here . . .": Black Faces in White Places -- 3. There's a New Sheriff in Town: The Police Making Contact -- 4. "It's the same song . . .": The Tragedies of Kevin Johnson and Charles "Cookie" Thornton -- 5. The Road to Reconciliation -- Conclusion and Discussion -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Study Participants -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

While considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing tells the full story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context. Through compelling interviews, participant observation, and field notes from a marginalized black enclave located in a predominately white suburb, Andrea S. Boyles examines a fraught



police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.