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Subject(s)

• Law enforcement—Social aspects [Browse]
• Community policing—Social aspects [Browse]
• White supremacy (Social structure) [Browse]
• Racism in criminology [Browse]
• Discrimination in law enforcement [Browse]
• Black people—Violence against [Browse]
• Police brutality [Browse]
• Police [Browse]
• Racism against Black people [Browse]

Series

• Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.) [More in this series]
• Forerunners: ideas first

Summary note

"How institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to worldmaking. Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing anti-Black violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. The result, Tia Trafford argues here, is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, this book examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense -- and insidious -- way of managing our world." -- page 4 of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references

Contents

• Introduction: Lynching from the Days of Slavery
• 1. The World as Police
• 2. Property Is a Plantation
• 3. The Police Are the Reform
• 4. The Impossibility of White Worlding

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ISBN

• 9781517916862 ((paperback))
• 1517916860 ((paperback))

OCLC

1405187538

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