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Race, Place, and Suburban Policing

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While considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Pl...
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While considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing tells the full story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context. Through compelling interviews, participant observation, and field notes from a marginalized black enclave located in a predominately white suburb, Andrea S. Boyles examines a fraught police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.
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Price: $95.00
Pages: 268
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 01 August 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520282384
Format: Hardcover
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"Boyles brings two fresh perspectives to the table of policing literature. First, her focus is on suburbia rather than the more traditional policing milieu of cities. Second, she expands the conversation from the police to the body politic as a whole. This latter novelty is arguably the most important addition Boyles makes to the policing literature."
Andrea S. Boyles is Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Tulane University. She is a feminist, race scholar, and author of You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America.
List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Rod K. Brunson
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • Race, Place, and Policing in the United States
2 • “You’re nothing but trash over here . . .”: Black Faces in White Places
3 • There’s a New Sheriff in Town: Th e Police Making Contact
4 • “It’s the same song . . .”: The Tragedies of Kevin Johnson and Charles “Cookie” Thornton
5 • The Road to Reconciliation
Conclusion and Discussion

Epilogue
Appendix: Study Participants
Notes
References
Index