Title Killing African Americans : police and vigilante violence as a racial control mechanism / Noel A. Cazenave, Department of Sociology, The University of Connecticut

Published New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series New critical viewpoints on society series New critical viewpoints on society series. Contents The police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the twenty-first century -- Making sense of the killings: theoretical insights, conceptual framework, and my racial control argument -- Violence-centered racial control systems and mechanisms in U.S. history -- Police and vigilante killings of African Americans as a racial control mechanism -- Viewing the killings through an economic lens: hypercapitalism and the growth of the American police state -- Ground zero: the vicious cycle of fatal dominative encounters -- Making Black Lives Matter: lessons learned and unfinished business Summary Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave's well-researched and conceptualized historical sociological study is one of the first books to focus exclusively on those killings and to treat them as political violence. Few issues have received as much conventional and social media attention in the United States over the past few years or have, for decades now, sparked so many protests and so often strained race relations to a near breaking point. Because of both its timely and its enduring relevance, Killing African Americans can reach a large audience composed not only of students and scholars, but also of Movement for Black Lives activists, politicians, public policy analysts, concerned police officers and other criminal justice professionals, and anyone else eager to better understand this American nightmare and its solutions from a progressive and informed African American perspective Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject African Americans -- Violence against. African Americans -- Crimes against. Violence -- United States Homicide -- United States Police brutality -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. African Americans -- Crimes against Homicide Police brutality Violence African Americans -- Violence against United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020691322 ISBN 9780429016134 0429016131 9780429507045 0429507046 9780429016141 042901614X 9780429016127 0429016123

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