Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina /
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Louisiana State University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: police violence, New Orleans, and the postwar urban landscape
- Negro police will aid in law and order: the fight for black police in the Crescent City
- Or does it explode?: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans
- "We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression
- The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism
- The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings
- Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform
- "We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board
- Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference
- "A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.