Race, place, and suburban policing : : too close for comfort / / Andrea S. Boyles.

"Relying on compelling interviews from the Meacham Park neighborhood--a marginalized Black enclave located in a predominately white affluent St. Louis suburb, this book brings to life the everyday interactions of disadvantaged suburban Blacks as they faced annexation, aggressive policing, two n...

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Place / Publishing House:Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Race, place, and policing in the United States
  • "You're nothing but trash over here" : black faces in white places
  • There's a new sheriff in town : the police making contact
  • "It's the same song" : the tragedies of Kevin Johnson and Charles "Cookie" Thornton
  • The road to reconciliation
  • Conclusion and discussion.