Chokehold : policing black men /
"Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it'...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
New Press,
2017.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Constructing the thug
- Controlling the thug
- Sex and torture: the police and black male bodies
- Black male violence: the chokehold within
- Do the brothers need keepers? How some black male programs perpetrate the chokehold
- Nothing works: why the chokehold can't be "reformed"
- If you catch a case: act like you know
- Woke: unlocking the chokehold.