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Hands up, don't shoot : why the protests in Ferguson and Baltimore matter, and how they changed America
- Title
- Hands up, don't shoot : why the protests in Ferguson and Baltimore matter, and how they changed America / Jennifer E. Cobbina.
- Author
- Cobbina, Jennifer
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
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- Description
- viii, 235 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides of unarmed black males at the hands of police officers. These local tragedies--and the protests surrounding them--assumed national significance, igniting fierce debate about the fairness and efficacy of the American criminal justice system. Yet, outside the gaze of mainstream attention, how do local residents and protesters in Ferguson and Baltimore understand their own experiences with race, place, and policing? In Hands Up, Don't Shoot, Jennifer Cobbina draws on in-depth interviews with nearly two hundred residents of Ferguson and Baltimore, conducted within two months of the deaths of Brown and Gray. She examines how protesters in both cities understood their experiences with the police, how those experiences influenced their perceptions of policing, what galvanized Black Lives Matter as a social movement, and how policing tactics during demonstrations influenced subsequent mobilization decisions among protesters. Ultimately, she humanizes people's deep and abiding anger, underscoring how a movement emerged to denounce both racial biases by police and the broader economic and social system that has stacked the deck against young black civilians.
- Alternative Title
- Hands up, do not shoot
- Why the protests in Ferguson and Baltimore matter, and how they changed America
- Subjects
- Police brutality
- Police-community relations
- Protest movements
- United States > Race relations
- African American men > Violence against
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States
- Police-community relations > United States
- Protest movements > United States
- Police brutality > Missouri > Ferguson
- Police brutality > Maryland > Baltimore
- Race relations
- Maryland > Baltimore
- Missouri > Ferguson
- Black author
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Race & policing: the more things change, the more they remain the same -- "Guilty until proven innocent": life under suspicion -- "It's a blue thing": race and black police officers -- "We stand united": why protesters marched -- "I will be out here every day strong!" : repressive policing and future activism -- Public disorder -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1350
- ISBN
- 9781479818563
- 1479818569
- 9781479874415
- 1479874418
- LCCN
- 2018044999
- 40029305873
- OCLC
- 1055567632
- Author
- Cobbina, Jennifer, author.
- Title
- Hands up, don't shoot : why the protests in Ferguson and Baltimore matter, and how they changed America / Jennifer E. Cobbina.
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029305873
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1350