TITLE:
America on fire : the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s / Elizabeth Hinton.
Alternate Title:
Untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation,
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
396 p. : ill.
Geographic Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-380) and index.
Summary:
Drawing on new sources, a leading scholar presents a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights moment without coming to terms with the astonishing violence, and hugely expanded policing regime, that followed it.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781631498909
