Police brutality : an anthology / edited by Jill Nelson.

Publisher's description: 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.

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Other Authors: Nelson, Jill, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2000]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 / 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.