Description: Occupied Territory : Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, Paperback by Balto, Simon, ISBN 1469659174, ISBN-13 9781469659176, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, including members of the citys political leadership and police department, who generally sympathized with white Chicagoans and viewed black migrants as a problem population. During Chicagos Red Summer riot, patterns of extraordinary brutality, negligence, and discriminatory policing emerged to shocking effect. Those patterns shifted in subsequent decades, but the overall realities of a racially discriminatory police system persisted.
In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighborhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression. Balto demonstrates that punitive practices by and inadequate protection from the police were central to black Chicagoans lives long before the late-century "wars" on crime and drugs. By exploring the deeper origins of this toxic system, Balto reveals how modern mass incarceration, built upon racialized police practices, emerged as a fully formed machine of profoundly antiblack subjugation.
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Book Title: Occupied Territory : Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Topic: Criminology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Author: Simon Balto
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: Justice, Power, and Politics Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
