Race and Police : : The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions /

Race and Police : : The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions / / Ben Brucato.

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slav...

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Brucato, Ben,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
©2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.) :; 0 images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Critical Theory of Race and Police
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Peculiar Institution of Police
  • 2. The Peculiar Institution of Race
  • Part II: The Police Law of Slavery
  • Introduction
  • 3. The Genesis of Race in Colonial Virginia
  • 4. The First Black Slave Society
  • 5. Acquiring a Slave Society
  • Part III: Black Insurrection and White Counterinsurgency in Colonial America
  • Introduction
  • 6. A “Patroll” to Suppress Domestic Dangers
  • 7. Policing the Chesapeake
  • 8. Enemies of Their Own Households
  • Conclusion: Peculiar Institutions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Note on the Cover Art
  • Index
  • About the Author

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