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Violence against black bodies : an intersectional analysis of how black lives continue to matter / edited by Sandra E. Weissinger, Dwayne A. Mack, and Elwood Watson.

Contributor(s): Weissinger, Sandra Ellen [editor.] | Mack, Dwayne, 1968- [editor.] | Watson, Elwood [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2017Description: 294 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138222106 (pbk.) :Subject(s): African Americans -- Violence against | Racism -- United States | African Americans in popular culture | African Americans -- United States -- Social conditions | Civil rights movements -- United States | Society | Society | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 305.8'96'073 Summary: 'Violence Against Black Bodies' argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of violence that black and brown people face daily in the western world. Through the voices of scholars from different academic disciplines, this text gives readers an opportunity to put the cases together and see that violent deaths in police custody are just one tentacle of the racial order - a hierarchy which is designed to produce trauma and discrimination according to one's perceived race-ethnicity.
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'Violence Against Black Bodies' argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of violence that black and brown people face daily in the western world. Through the voices of scholars from different academic disciplines, this text gives readers an opportunity to put the cases together and see that violent deaths in police custody are just one tentacle of the racial order - a hierarchy which is designed to produce trauma and discrimination according to one's perceived race-ethnicity.

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