Chokehold : policing black men / Paul Butler.
Publisher's description: 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...
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New York :
The New Press,
2017.
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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.