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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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