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Author_Andrea S. Boyles
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black community
black lives
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community empowerment
crime prevention
criminal justice
criminology
death
discrimination
empowerment
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ethnic studies
ferguson
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race
racism
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520298330
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 2019
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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You Can’t Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography conducted from inside of Ferguson protests as the Black Lives Matter movement catapulted onto the global stage. Sociologist Andrea S. Boyles offers an everyday montage of protests, social ties, and empowerment that coalesced to safeguard black lives while igniting unprecedented twenty-first‑century resistance. Focusing on neighborhood crime prevention and contentious black citizen–police interactions in the context of preserving black lives, this book examines how black citizens work to combat disorder, crime, and police conflict. Boyles offers an insider’s analysis of cities like Ferguson, where a climate of indifference leaves black neighborhoods vulnerable to conflict, where black lives are seemingly expendable, and where black citizens are held responsible for their own oppression. You Can’t Stop the Revolution serves as a reminder that community empowerment is still possible in neighborhoods experiencing police brutality and interpersonal violence.
Andrea S. Boyles is Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Tulane University. She is a feminist, race scholar, and the author of Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for Comfort.
