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African American freedom struggles
and violence in America
anti-Black mob attacks
Author_Herbert Shapiro
Black political organizing under threat
Black resistance strategies
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civil rights era unrest
collective punishment and race
community self-defense traditions
courts and racial bias
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extrajudicial killings history
failures of equal protection
grassroots survival networks
historical analysis of racist aggression
historical roots of urban uprisings
history of lynching in America
history of race riots
inequality in judicial outcomes
institutionalized discrimination
Jim Crow-era repression
legal double standards by race
media complicity in racial narratives
moral contradictions in U.S. history
organized racist terror groups
policing and racialized violence
post-Civil War racial conflict
power
protest and armed self-protection debates
public memory of racial terror
race
race and criminal justice history
race and the rule of law
racial oppression and social control
racial pogroms in the United States
racial terror in U.S. history
racial violence and democracy
racialized law enforcement
racialized public order policies
Reconstruction-era backlash
segregation-era injustice
social movements against racist brutality
state inaction against racist attacks
suppression of Black political power
systemic racism in legal institutions
terror as a tool of domination
vigilante brutality
voter intimidation history
white supremacist movements
Product details
- ISBN 9780870235788
- Weight: 805g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Mar 1988
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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We are taught that America is a society based on respect for the law and orderly procedures. That the Constitution stands as a safeguard of individual freedom, and the courts and the police are supposedly established to enforce the law. When a controversial issue arises in the American fabric, it is to be resolved not in the streets but through the democratic processes of elections. Yet, for blacks these liberal values have been turned into their opposites. The courts have most often stood silent in the face of racist violence or have turned their wrath against the victims, not the perpetrators; the police have protected the mob rather than the mobbed and have often either aided the lynchers or displayed amazing inability to identify them. Where race is concerned, legislative or judicial action to deal with controversial issues has often come late and been partial in nature, while white violence has continued to terrorize black Americans without hindrance.
In White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, Herbert Shapiro explores the depths of violence generated by white racism and the irony of the American association with violence as a behavior of black people. Citing the nation's political leadership, educational institutions, and news media as institutions that fail to educate Americans about the oppressive social conditions that have root in these criminal acts, Shapiro is able to expose the ways in which white supremacy operates within American institutions and the responses by black people in this powerful read.
In White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, Herbert Shapiro explores the depths of violence generated by white racism and the irony of the American association with violence as a behavior of black people. Citing the nation's political leadership, educational institutions, and news media as institutions that fail to educate Americans about the oppressive social conditions that have root in these criminal acts, Shapiro is able to expose the ways in which white supremacy operates within American institutions and the responses by black people in this powerful read.
