Black Rage in New Orleans Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina

Name: Black Rage in New Orleans Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
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ISBN: 9780807135907

ISBN-10: 0807135909

ISBN-13: 9780807135907

Edition: 2010

Authors: Leonard N. Moore

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In Black Rage in New Orleans, Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. Moore explores a staggering array of NOPD abuses police homicides, sexual violence against women, racial profiling, and complicity in drug deals, prostitution rings, burglaries, protection schemes, and gun smuggling and the increasingly voceriferous calls for reform by the city's black community. The first book-length study of police brutality and African American protest in a major American city, Black Rage in New Orleans will prove essential for anyone interested in race…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 4/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction
Police Violence, New Orleans, and the Postwar Urban Landscape	p. 1
Negro Police Well aid in Law and Order
The Fight for Black Police in the Crescent City	p. 17
Or Does it Explode?
The Black Freedom Struggle Comes to New Orleans	p. 43
"We Want an End to Police Brutality"
The Black Panthers, Desire, and Police Repression	p. 70
The Politics of Self-Defense
Mark Essex, the Soul Patrol, and Black Vigilantism	p. 96
The Right to Organize
The Black Organization of Police, Mass Protest, and the City Council Hearings	p. 115
Black Power Politics
Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the Limits of Police Reform	p. 140
"We are Living in a Police State"
The Algiers Tragedy, the: Maturation of Community Protest, and the Politics of a Civilian Review Board	p. 164
Black-On-Black Crime
The Consequences of White Flight, the War on Drugs, and Political Indifference	p. 203
"A New Day in Babylon"
The Professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the Claiming of Urban Public Space	p. 220
Epilogue Policing Katrina	p. 249
Notes	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 293
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