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Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities
In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities.
Repeated decisions to “upgrade” the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations have resulted in pockets of poverty inhabited by people experiencing displacement trauma and police surveillance. These interconnected sets of divestments and accumulated frustrations have contributed to eruptions of violence in response to tragic, unjust police killings. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality.
In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities.
Repeated decisions to “upgrade” the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations have resulted in pockets of poverty inhabited by people experiencing displacement trauma and police surveillance. These interconnected sets of divestments and accumulated frustrations have contributed to eruptions of violence in response to tragic, unjust police killings. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 368
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
06 August 2024
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520401471
Format: Paperback
"Hyra’s honest, honorable, and immensely generative research. . . performs a great service by looking below the surface, behind the scenes, and before the present to uncover what has too often been hidden in scholarship and civic life."
Derek Hyra is Professor of Public Administration and Policy and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University. His research focuses on neighborhood change, with an emphasis on housing, urban politics, and race.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
I Understanding Unrest
1 Riots or Revolts? An Urban Renewal Unrest Perspective
II Linking Slow and Sudden Violence
2 Segregation, Divestment, and Serial Displacement
3 Central Corridor Gentrification and Suburban Segregation
4 Plantation Politics and Policing
5 Ghetto Walls Go Up
6 Ghetto Walls Come Down
7 Watch Out for Broken Windows!
III Breaking the Cycle
8 Revisiting Theories and Racial Policy Responses
Appendix A. A Pandemic Methods Mess and Some Solutions
Appendix B. Select Descriptive Statistics
Notes
References
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
I Understanding Unrest
1 Riots or Revolts? An Urban Renewal Unrest Perspective
II Linking Slow and Sudden Violence
2 Segregation, Divestment, and Serial Displacement
3 Central Corridor Gentrification and Suburban Segregation
4 Plantation Politics and Policing
5 Ghetto Walls Go Up
6 Ghetto Walls Come Down
7 Watch Out for Broken Windows!
III Breaking the Cycle
8 Revisiting Theories and Racial Policy Responses
Appendix A. A Pandemic Methods Mess and Some Solutions
Appendix B. Select Descriptive Statistics
Notes
References
Index