Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
The Creation of Jim Crow Policing. New Orleans in the 1920s and 30s was a deadly place. In 1925, the citys homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston, despite having a fraction of the population. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide officially recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940over two thousand in allscouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers. More than simply quantifying these cases, Adler places them in larger contextslegal, political, cultural, and demographicand emerges with a tale of racism, urban violence, and vicious policing that has
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-64331-1
- EAN: 9780226643311
- Produktnummer: 29730720
- Verlag: Univ Of Chicago Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.7 cm 525 g
- Gewicht: 525
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