The Color of Crime (Second Edition): Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions
When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its tenth anniversary year, Katheryn Russell-Brown's book is more relevant than ever. The Jena Six, Duke Lacrosse Team, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, James Byrd, and all of those victimized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are just a few of the racially fueled cases that have made headlines in the past decade.Russell-Brown continues to ask, why do Black and White Americans perceive police actions so differently? Is White fear of Black crime justified? Do African Americans really protect their own? Should they? And why…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8147-7618-6
- EAN: 9780814776186
- Produktnummer: 3797358
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 213 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 318 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 318
Über den Autor
Katheryn Russell-Brown is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. She is the author of Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime, and African Americans and Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires (NYU Press).
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